“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
Olesya Novikova in rehearsal for The Sleeping Beauty
© Nikolay Krusser
Evgenia Obraztsova as the title role in Cinderella
© Mark Olich
Natalia Osipova in ROH Giselle, Act II
Photo Credit: Emma Kauther
Evgenia Obraztsova and Semyon Chudin in Diamonds.
Nov. 26.2016，NCPA Gala in Beijing
Photo by Han Jun
Olesya Novikova in rehearsal for The Sleeping Beauty
© Nikolay Krusser
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi
jack devant photography
Staatsballett Berlin – Sleeping Beauty
Olesya Novikova in rehearsal for The Sleeping Beauty
© Nikolay Krusser
Diana Vishneva rehearsing La Bayadere at the Mariinsky Theatre.
Photo by Nikolai Krusser.
Olesya Novikova in rehearsal for The Sleeping Beauty
© Nikolay Krusser
Natalia Osipova in ROH Giselle, Act II
Photo Credit: Bill Cooper
Olesya Novikova in rehearsal for The Sleeping Beauty
© Nikolay Krusser
Evgenia Obraztsova as the title role in Cinderella
© Mark Olich
“And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.”
― Edgar Degas
