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The acclaimed ballet company features 150 dancers who now perform when they can at the Taras Shevchenko National Opera House in Kyiv, depending on the circumstances of war with Russia.
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The winter tour starts in Quebec City on Jan. 15 and ends in Calgary nearly a month later.
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