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With World War Two still casting a long shadow, she describes being on tour in the Netherlands in 1940 when she saw the German army "landing by parachute". The ballet company "left hurriedly in what we were wearing and what we could wear on top of our ordinary clothes", abandoning scenery, costumes, music, "everything else".