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Monique Jaques

Taras Titarenko leaps for his curtain call at the end of “The Nutcracker” performance.

Lada Romanova during the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” performance in France.

Olga Posternak speaks with Mykhaylo Shcherbakov before a performance of “The Nutcracker.”

Ivan Koslov, who runs the Kiev City Ballet company with his wife, instructs dancers from the seats at a theater in Nantes, France. The Kiev City Ballet is not the only group of Ukrainian artists displaced by the war.

Members of the Kiev City Ballet rest between warm ups while others wait to go on stage for rehearsals.

Kristina Bakliak, a soloist, prepares for a performance.

Ballet dancers Aelita Shevchuk, left, and Diana Potapenko wait for their turn to take the stage during a performance in Nantes, France.

Julia Kuzmich, a soloist who plays Clara in “The Nutcracker,” took on the role after principal dancers were unable to make the performance after the airport in Kyiv, Ukraine was closed during the invasion.

Miroslav Chernous warms up his feet while Julia Kuzmich stretches during the final minutes before the start of the show.

Ballet dancers warm up before a performance of “The Nutcracker.” The Kiev City Ballet company was originally in France to perform a child’s version of “The Nutcracker.” But the war has changed their performances, down to the most basic logistics.