Israel’s Bat Dor Ballet Company, now touring Poland, received a 15-minute standing ovation from a full house audience at its premiere performance in Warsaw’s Grand Theater Tuesday night, the company’s general manager, Barry Swersky, reported in a telephone interview from the Polish capital Wednesday.
The audience included the wife and daughter of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski, Swersky said, the Ministers of Culture and Interior, members of Parliament and figures from the arts. It was the first appearance of a major Israeli cultural group in Poland. Bat Dor will give a second performance in Warsaw Wednesday night and will perform twice in Lodz and Gdansk.
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