A male ballet dancer accused of entering the dressing room of his female colleagues will not be sanctioned / „There is no regulation allowing the attribution of disciplinary action” / Eight female dancers have filed complaints with the management of the National Opera of Iasi 

The Romanian National Opera in Iasi has decided that the ballet dancer Vlad Marculescu will not be disciplined, after he was accused by eight female opera employees of having entered several times the dressing room where the ballerinas were changing, Ziarul de Iasi reports.

According to the minutes of the decision of the Ethics and Disciplinary Committee published by Vlad Marculescu and on his social media page, no action will be taken against him. „The imputed fact/facts are not of a disciplinary nature and no sanction should be applied, as there is no regulation allowing the attribution of a disciplinary act,” the document states.

The same source states that the dancer was investigated for „violating the right to privacy of ONRI employees or collaborators by abusively entering the locker room marked with the sign „locker room two girls””. The information provided by the Opera confirms the facts described by „Ziarul de Iasi” in October 2022: eight ballerinas filed complaints about the alleged acts committed by the dancer.

In the complaints filed with the management of the institution, Vlad Mărculescu was accused of having entered several times in the dressing room, where the ballerinas were changing, and surprised them naked. On some occasions, he allegedly refused to come out after being asked, and was chased away after the women screamed.

Contacted by „Ziarul de Iași”, Vlad Mărculescu denied the accusations, admitting that the only time he entered the women’s changing room was when he wanted to use the sink at the entrance to wash, but only when the door was open.

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