Vadym Khlupianets

Vadym Vasylovych Khlupianets (, 4 June 199615 November 2022) was a Ukrainian ballet dancer at the Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta and a participant in the Russo-Ukrainian War. He died during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Biography Khlupianets was born in Donetsk on 4 June 1996, and he studied in the Ukrainian language class at school No. 91.

He graduated from the Kyiv Choreographic College. In 2015, he joined the Kyiv National Academic Theater of Operetta as a ballet dancer. He was also engaged in sports, including football and chess, and participated in the sports life of the theatre. In 2017, he was recognised as the best scorer in the mini-football tournament among theatre teams in Kyiv. He spent his a free-time from work studying hip-hop.

Khlupianets died from a sniper's bullet near Bakhmut on 15 November 2022, initially, he was reported as dead on 13 November, but it was later clarified.

The farewell ceremony took place on 24 November on the premises of the Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta, on the day of the premiere of the performance The ball, which was directed by Matteo Spiazzi from Italy, a role in which Vadym rehearsed but did not play (the first premiere performance of the collective dedicated the theatre to Vadym) Among those present at the ceremony were relatives of the deceased, colleagues and military personnel, and caring citizens.

His remains were buried in the village of Staryi Dorohyn of Zhytomyr Oblast.

Arts Theatre's roles As a ballet dancer of the Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta, he was involved in productions of: After two hares Carmen Such Jewish happiness by Ihor Poklad, directed by Serhiy Smiian 2018 - Fiddler on the Roof to the music of J. Bock, directed by Bohdan Strutynskyi 2018 - Moskalytsa by Maria Matios, directed by Vlada Belozorenko 2021 - Dorian Gray by Asa Janos and Gunnar Braunckem, based on the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, directed by Vadym Prokopenko

Filmography 2017 - full-length feature film Rzhaka, directed by Dmytro Tomashpolskyi