Passionate about dancing, she earned a full scholarship to the prestigious American Ballet Theater's summer intensive in New York aged 13.

CNN: Michaela DePrince: From war orphan to teen ballerina

Thank you so much. (Applause.) This amazing woman, born in Philadelphia, she was onstage in New York with the American Ballet Theater by her early 20s.

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There's no denying that opera, ballet and theater take themselves seriously, too.

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This entire episode is like an economic theater, a ballet, with a very delicate balance.

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At the Thailand Cultural Center in Bangkok, the visiting Novosibirsk Theater of Opera and Ballet had put on a stunning performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, one of my all-time favorite compositions.

CNN: From Our Correspondent: Pathein's Four Just Men

Vorontsova danced for Filin when he worked at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater, Moscow's second ballet company.

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Filin took up the key role at the world-renowned ballet company in 2011, after three years directing Moscow's Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Earlier this year, New York City Ballet invited the Brooklyn-based art collective Faile to erect a tower of comic book-style drawings in the theater's elegant promenade.

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