“The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you’re asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. “
– Penelope Cruz
Rehearsals at Opera Garnier for William Forsythe’s newest ballet, photos by Bejanmin Millepied (off his instagram)
Evgenia Obraztsova and Vladislav Lantratov in a Romeo And Juliet PDD
Photo by Gene Schiavone
Wendy Whelan
Photo: Kyle Froman
“At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn’t do. And then I’d think maybe they should try what I could do. “
– Twyla Tharp
Rehearsals at Opera Garnier for William Forsythe’s newest ballet, photos by Bejanmin Millepied (off his instagram)
Marianela Núñez and Ty King-Wall, “Swan Lake” (rehearsal), The Australian Ballet
© Kate Longley
Marianela Núñez “Swan Lake” (rehearsal), The Australian Ballet
© Kate Longley
This the only existing image of Peter Martins, Lincoln Kirstein, and George Balanchine in the same photo.
Photo by Susan Kuklin
Marianela Núñez “Swan Lake” (rehearsal), The Australian Ballet
© Kate Longley
“Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out… it’s not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with. “
– Neve Campbell
NYCB poster design from 1974 and the slightly unexpected hand of Edward Gorey.
Rehearsals at Opera Garnier for William Forsythe’s newest ballet, photos by Bejanmin Millepied (off his instagram)
“The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.”
– George Balanchine
