En pointe, demi-pointe, entrechat, for Jotaro Kanazasi and Haruka Takemi, two Japanese dancers based in Russia's historic city of Nizhny Novgorod, life revolves entirely around their art, even as the war in Ukraine occasionally interrupts their daily routine.
Jotaro Kanazasi, 32, chose to settle in Russia 14 years ago, the country known for Moscow's Bolshoi and St Petersburg's Mariinsky theatres, to fulfil himself "fully as a dancer," as he puts it in halting Russian.
