By Carla Zanoni
DNAinfo Reporter Producer
UPPER WEST SIDE — International ballet star Natalia Osipova was mugged by two men after leaving a performance of “Sleeping Beauty” early Tuesday morning at the American Ballet Theatre, the New York Times reported.
Osipova, 24, was mugged by two teen boys at 12:30 a.m. on Amsterdam Avenue near west 63rd, police told the New York Post. One punched the dancer in the face and snatched her purse, police said.
“Two guys just came from her back and they hit her and they took her bag,” Osipova's agent Sergei Danilian told the Times. “She was so brave and so smart — she didn’t scream.”
Danilian said the muggers got away with the ballerina’s point shoes and a small hammer used to shape the shoes and that Osipova had left her passport, money and computer at the Met.
Osipova, a star of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, came to New York last year. She is scheduled to perform in Saturday’s “Sleeping Beauty” performance.
Osipova will “absolutely, no doubt,” perform on Saturday, Danilian told the Times.
Calls to the American Ballet Theatre and Danilian were not immediately returned.
The NYPD is still searching for the assailants.
