Ukrainian ballet dancing star Artem Datsyshyn has died, three weeks after being injured in Russian shelling in Kyiv, it has been reported.
Datsyshyn, a former soloist at the National Opera of Ukraine, died in hospital, according to a Facebook post by his friend Tatiana Borovik. He was 43.
The chief stage director at the company, Anatoly Solovyanenko, has paid tribute to Datsyshyn, calling him “a great artist” and “a wonderful man”.
Russian-American choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, a former principal dancer in Kyiv and former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, now based in New York, stated that Datsyshyn died from “wounds received on February 26 when he got under Russian artillery fire”.
The dancer’s death follows reports that veteran Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets has also died following a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in Kyiv.
Shvets was a company member of the city’s Young Theatre, well known...
Datsyshyn, a former soloist at the National Opera of Ukraine, died in hospital, according to a Facebook post by his friend Tatiana Borovik. He was 43.
The chief stage director at the company, Anatoly Solovyanenko, has paid tribute to Datsyshyn, calling him “a great artist” and “a wonderful man”.
Russian-American choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, a former principal dancer in Kyiv and former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, now based in New York, stated that Datsyshyn died from “wounds received on February 26 when he got under Russian artillery fire”.
The dancer’s death follows reports that veteran Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets has also died following a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in Kyiv.
Shvets was a company member of the city’s Young Theatre, well known...
- 3/19/2022
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
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Need for speed: Tom Cruise will bring some star power to Cannes Film Festival this year when he heads to the Riviera to premiere his upcoming movie Top Gun: Maverick. Rumored for a while, Deadline’s Mike Fleming Junior had the exclusive on the details this week, revealing that the film will debut in Cannes on May 18, with Cruise taking part in an in-conversation event on the same day before receiving a special tribute ahead of the screening.
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- 3/18/2022
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- Deadline Film + TV
Revered Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets has been killed in a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in Kiev, according to the Young Theatre, where she was part of the troupe. She was reportedly 67. Basing its report on ‘Kyiv Post’, the English-language daily published from the Ukrainian capital, ‘Deadline’ said that Shvets worked in […]...
- 3/18/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Revered Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets has been killed in a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in Kyiv, according to the Young Theater where she was part of the troupe. She was reportedly 67.
Shvets worked in theater and film for decades and her efforts garnered one of Ukraine’s highest honors, the title of which roughly translates as “Honored Artist of Ukraine” — it is also sometimes inartfully expressed in English as “Well-Deserved Artist.” Whatever the case, the honor is only bestowed upon those among the country’s most accomplished performing artists.
In its announcement, the Young Theater expressed “unreparable grief” at Shvets’ passing, before describing how the actress died.
“During the rocket shelling of a residential building in Kyiv,” the statement reads, “a well-deserved artist of Ukraine Oksana Shvets was killed.”
Shvets was reportedly born on February 10, 1955. She graduated from the theater studio at the Ivan Franko Theater and...
Shvets worked in theater and film for decades and her efforts garnered one of Ukraine’s highest honors, the title of which roughly translates as “Honored Artist of Ukraine” — it is also sometimes inartfully expressed in English as “Well-Deserved Artist.” Whatever the case, the honor is only bestowed upon those among the country’s most accomplished performing artists.
In its announcement, the Young Theater expressed “unreparable grief” at Shvets’ passing, before describing how the actress died.
“During the rocket shelling of a residential building in Kyiv,” the statement reads, “a well-deserved artist of Ukraine Oksana Shvets was killed.”
Shvets was reportedly born on February 10, 1955. She graduated from the theater studio at the Ivan Franko Theater and...
- 3/17/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
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