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World Service,04 May 2020,44 mins

Love and defection on the dancefloor

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Cuban principal ballet dancers Mayara Piñeiro Contido and Etienne Díez found love in exile. They now perform as a couple on stages around the world. Colm Flynn reports. Meredith May is an award-winning US jounalist who turned to honey bees to help cure her loneliness as a child. Her book is called The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees Picture: Mayara Piñeiro Contido and Etienne Díez Credit: Courtesy Pennsylvania Ballet

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