1957. Ruth Sorel, at the age of 50, returns to Warsaw. It is a return for good. But the Warsaw she and Choromanski are relocating to is very different from the city they fled from 17 years earlier. Warsaw was heavily destroyed in the 2nd World War and more than half of the population was killed. Now, there were new buildings and street names had changed, but probably even more drastic was the change in political atmosphere. Polish Communism favoured Soviet ballet and Sorel’s work was too associated with the avant-garde of the 1930s and German “Ausdruckstanz”. While Choromanski was at least partly able to call on his former success, for Ruth Sorel the move to Poland meant the end of her artistic career. She only appeared one more time in a solo performance.