Olexy Potiomkin, 33 years old, was born in Kyiv. He is a principal dancer from the National Opera of Ukraine, Kyiv. He started dancing at nine years old and has danced professionally for 14 seasons. Olexy was also a volunteer soldier and army medic with the Hospitallers Medical Battalion. Currently his family, a wife, who is also a ballerina, and boy of 4 years are in Italy due to the war.
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Katarina Shmykheliska, 36 years, is from Dnipro, a war torn city in eastern Ukraine. She has danced professionally for 20 years, starting at the age of eight. She was dancing with the Dnipro National Opera Ballet and has come to live and dance in Lviv, since the start of the war. She is here with her husband and 2 children, 6 and 10 years old.
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