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Post-Kobborg Uproar In Bucharest: Alina Cojocaru In Tears, 30 Dancers Threaten To Quit, Staffers Scream ‘Foreigners Out Of The Country!’

DANCE Posted: April 13, 2016 5:00 am

Tuesday evening, after Johan Kobborg formally resigned as artistic director of the ballet company at the Bucharest National Opera, about 30 dancers (many of them from abroad) joined Alina Cojocaru – the country’s leading ballerina and Kobborg’s fiancée – to protest the situation; all of them agreed that they would not stay with the company if Kobborg were not brought back. Meanwhile, some other opera house employees counter-demonstrated, booing the dancers and shouting, “Foreigners out of the country! This is the Romanian National Opera!” (in Romanian; Google Translate version here)

DANCE Published: 04.12.16

Read the story in Adevărul (Bucharest) Published: 04.12.16

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