Underground Ballet

When fans of the football club of Beitar Jerusalem make their way to Teddy Stadium they hardly ever notice Nadia as she enters and makes her way to a classical ballet studio beneath the bleachers The ceiling trembles the cheering fills the room but the studio remains isolated from Jerusalems reality A decade ago Nadia and her mother Nina Timofeyeva a prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Ballet left Moscow for Jerusalem and set up the studio It was a professional suicide Ballet and football make for a surrealistic combination