The heat suffocates the LED in Thionville. A soft classical melody ventilates one of its rooms. It refreshes, lulls us. Sitting in front of her piano, Anika takes us into her universe, committed and full of sweetness. Sometimes she caresses the keys, sometimes she penetrates her instrument. This 18-year-old Ukrainian girl provides a sublime demonstration this Wednesday, July 20 in front of teenagers from the priority neighborhoods of Thionville. “How does she manage to have her fingers everywhere?” wonders Alik Usoyan, 14.
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“At any minute, a bomb could explode”
Anika arrived on the 1is May in Thionville, with her mother, Tetiana, and her sister, Krystyna. They stay with Daniel Guyot, a resident of Garch. Following the Russian invasion in Ukraine on February 24, the latter fled Prylouky, their hometown east of kyiv. “We were scared. At any minute, a bomb could go off in our house. When we passed in front of kyiv, to flee, we saw bombarded houses, it’s horrible,” laments Anika.
When she arrived in France, members of the town hall of Thionville noticed her. This musician has a talent for the piano, which she has cultivated since she was six years old. This virtuoso practiced 39 hours a week. The pianist integrates the youth initiative grant offered by Thionville to talents “who carry out a project of collective interest”. In exchange for financial assistance, she leads piano initiation sessions and tells her story.
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Initiation au piano
With two fingers, she guides the teenagers of the Jacques-Prévert center. Zackaria Barina is doing very well. Alik Usoyan, his comrade, has more difficulty. “It’s too hard,” he says. Good humor is the order of the day, driven by Anika, with a smile glued to her lips.
The latter does not see herself as a pianist. She imagines herself on the boards of Ukrainian theaters, or on the big screen, in the cinema. “My dream is to become a drama actress. I want to bring Hollywood back to Ukraine,” thinks the pianist. In the meantime, she dreams above all of returning to her country, Ukraine.
