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A Young Dancer's Apprenticeship: On Tour with the Moscow City Ballet *** 1/2
At 14, talented young dancer Olympia Dowd was plucked from the obscurity of a Vancouver ballet workshop and offered a life-altering opportunity: she was one of two Canadian girls selected to dance with the Moscow City Ballet.
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Hell hath no fury like a dancer scorned *
Fired by the Bolshoi for being too heavy, ballerina Anastasia Volochkova gets even with a show at the Kremlin Palace. The crowd ate it up, cheesy ending and all, MARK MacKINNON writes.
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