Ballet Beautiful

 

“Movements of the body are a reflection of the soul.”

 

― Shah Asad Rizvi

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Frederick Ashton, Marguerite and Armand

Zenaida Yanowsky and Federico Bonelli

ph. Tristram Kenton

 

 

Mariinsky Swans

by Gene Schiavone

 

 

 

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.”

― Merce Cunningham

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Photo by Mark Olich

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.”

 

― Erol Ozan

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Mariinsky Swans

by Gene Schiavone

 

 

 

 

Marianela Nunez rehearsing Symphonic Variations

 

 

Mariinsky Swans

by Gene Schiavone

 

 

Double tour en l’air

 

 

Paris Opera Ballet school student Bleuenn Battistoni during a summer intensive at the Royal Ballet School

 

 

Marianela Nunez rehearsing Symphonic Variations

 

National Ballet of Canada rehearsing Swan Lake photo by Daniel Neuhaus

Etienne Lavigne as Rothbart with Xiao Nan Yu as Odette

 

 

 

 

 

“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and in measure…..Therefore, whatever the old doctors may say, to employ oneself at all this is to be a Philosopher and a Mathematician.”

 

― Charles Sorel

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