I didn’t want to feel sorry about what I didn’t do, so I just decided to keep going.” “But at the same time I felt like I didn’t want to go back, because I had changed many things about myself. “I had a choice to go back to Russia and be with my family and lead a different life,” she said. Rehearsing On the Dnieper in May, and on a break at the Metropolitan Opera House, below. I couldn’t find who the real Veronika was and how I wanted to be onstage.” ![]() But if I want to live in America, I have to be somebody else. “When I came to America, I was completely a Russian ballerina,” she said. Part learned English by assiduously watching “Seinfeld” and has worked even harder to change her character. Formerly a soloist with the Maryinsky Ballet, Ms. Now 31 and a newly anointed principal dancer with Ballet Theater, she is far from the girl who fantasized about marrying a prince on a white horse. ![]() Part has a darkly casual way of revealing something sad and following it up with a guttural, sensuous laugh. “My father came once for two weeks, and he didn’t like New York. “I didn’t know how to go to the store and buy sheets,” she said. When she arrived to join American Ballet Theater as a soloist seven years ago, she spoke no English and had only two suitcases. ![]() Petersburg, Russia, but grew up in New York.
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