“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
Masha Alexandrova in Class Concert
Olga Smirnova and Semyon Chudin rehearsing La Belle
Svetlana Zakharova in Distant Cries
© Jack Devant
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
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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