Ballet Beautiful

Nina Kaptsova in Bolshoi’s Giselle

Photo by Damir Yusupov

 
 
 
 
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself”.
 
– Mikhail Baryshnikov

Photo by Nikolai Krusser

Mikhailovsky’s Giselle

Photo by Nikolai Krusser

Backstage before Arabesque ballet competition

Perm, Russia

Photo by Marina Dmitrieva

 

 

 

 

“I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.”
 
– George Balanchine
 
 
 

Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto – 3rd movement

NYCB dancers warmup onstage

Ana Turazashvili in Bolshoi’s Don Quixote

Photo via her Instagram

Backstage at the Mariinsky Theatre before Giselle
 
Photo by Marc Olich
 

Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto – 3rd movement

Angelina Vorontsova

Photo by Nikolay Krusser

Rothbart’s Death, Mariinsky’s Swan Lake

Photo by Marc Olich

Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto – 3rd movement

NYC Dance Project, Keenan Kampa

Dress by Liz White Couture


Backstage at the Mariinsky after La Bayadere

Photo by Mark Olich

Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto – 3rd movement

The Scottish Ballet

Lucia Lacarra in Bayerisches Staatsballett’s La Dame Aux Camelias

Photo by Carlos Quezada

Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto – 3rd movement

Misty Copeland for Harper’s Bazaar Magazine

Photo by Ken Browar & Deborah Ory

 

 

 

 

“Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.”
 
– Charles Baudelaire
 
 
 


Irina Kolpakova in Raymonda

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