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Article: Culture: High spirit, but the Swan dies; Producer Ellen Kent has teamed up with Russian Classical Ballet Theatre to bring lavish productions of Swan Lake and Coppelia to Sunderland Empire, as she tells Tamzin Lewis.(Features)
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- The Journal (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2007
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Byline: Tamzin Lewis
FOR some reason, sharing experiences of Russia often involves recalling the potency of Russian vodka. Ellen Kent, who spent last year reshaping the Russian Classical Ballet Theatre, naturally has a vodka moment to share from her travels.
Ellen, who has worked extensively in Moldova and Ukraine has become accustomed to wine drinking cultures, but a trip to Russia meant dining with vodka drinkers.
She says: "Russian people drink vodka at meals the way most people drink wine. On one occasion they had all these toasts and found ...