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FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday Sept. 23, 2007, Ballet dancers Julio Bocca, right, and Alina Cojocaru perform Swan Lake in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday Sept. 23, 2007. Romania Opera house artistic director Johan Kobborg, of Denmark, has resigned, and it is announced Thursday April 14, 2016, that Romania's Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos intends to help find a solution to a bitter dispute raging at the Romanian Opera. Ciolos decided to step in to the dispute after his meeting with internationally renowned ballerina Alina Cojocaru who says she won't dance Manon this weekend and claims there is an atmosphere of "fear and intimidation." (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, FILE)
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