Ballet Beautiful

“Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.”
 
-Alexander Pushkin
 
 

Oksana Skorik in Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux (Mariinsky Ballet)

Serenade (The Washington Ballet, 2018)
Svetlana Zakharova as Giselle
Swan Lake, Bolshoi Ballet, 2014
Natalia Osipova in Class Concert
“Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy; it becomes possible.” 
 
– Agnes De Mille
 
 

Jingling Mao and Bastiaan Stoop (Dutch National Ballet, 2017)

Svetlana Zakharova in Distant Cries
© Jack Devant

“Prelude” by Andrea Santolaya
– Backstage at the Mikhailovsky Theatre
Masha Alexandrova in Class Concert

Olga Smirnova and Semyon Chudin rehearsing La Belle

 

Svetlana Zakharova in Distant Cries
© Jack Devant

“Prelude” by Andrea Santolaya
– Backstage at the Mikhailovsky Theatre
Natalia Osipova in Class Concert

Olga Smirnova and Semyon Chudin rehearsing La Belle

 

Svetlana Zakharova in Distant Cries
© Jack Devant
Masha Alexandrova in Class Concert

Olga Smirnova and Semyon Chudin rehearsing La Belle
Svetlana Zakharova as Giselle

Robyn Hendricks (The Australian Ballet)
 
 
 
“I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.”
 
– Kevin Mckenzie
 
 
 

“Prelude” by Andrea Santolaya
– Backstage at the Mikhailovsky Theatre

 

Svetlana Zakharova in Distant Cries
© Jack Devant

Gelsey Kirkland as Giselle in Giselle (NYCB)
Natalia Osipova in Class Concert

 

“Prelude” by Andrea Santolaya
– Backstage at the Mikhailovsky Theatre
 
“Ballet is important and significant – yes. But first of all it is a pleasure.”
 
– George Balanchine
 
 
 

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