Ballet Beautiful

Costumes backstage at New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker. 
 
Photo by Kathryn Wirsing
 
“Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both.
 It requires discipline, taking care of yourself, taking care of your own body first. 
Then it allows you to give of that beauty, the beauty that you acquire by sculpting your own body all your life.”
 
 
– PETER MARTINS, NYC Ballet Workout
 
 
 

Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

 
Korean National Ballet’s Snow Scene in The Nutcracker, 
 

Evgenia Obraztsova and Semion Chudin rehearsing for “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux”
 
 
“What’s so wonderful about ballet is that it’s mind-driven physicality. It’s almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.”
 
 
– EDWARD VILLELLA, Nancy Upper’s Ballet Dancer’s in Career Transition
 
 
 
Headpiece backstage at New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker. 
 
Photo by Kathryn Wirsing
 

Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

Pointe shoes backstage at New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker. 
 
Photo by Kathryn Wirsing
 

Emil Loteanu’s Anna Pavlova [1983]

“All ballet is dance, but not all dance is ballet.”
-ROBIN RINALDI, Ballet
 
 
 
 

Korean National Ballet’s Snow Scene in The Nutcracker, 
 

Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

Evgenia Obraztsova and Semion Chudin rehearsing for “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux”

“Swan” Photography by Sasha Gouliaev. 

Emil Loteanu’s Anna Pavlova [1983]

Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

Evgenia Obraztsova and Semion Chudin rehearsing for “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux”

Korean National Ballet’s Snow Scene in The Nutcracker, 
 

Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

Emil Loteanu’s Anna Pavlova [1983]

Boston Ballet dancers in Diamonds
 
Photo: Rosalie O’Connor
 
 
“Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.”
 
 
– SHIRLEY MACLAINE, My Lucky Stars
 
 
 

Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

Costumes backstage at New York City Ballet’s The Nutcracker. 
 
Photo by Kathryn Wirsing
 

Evgenia Obraztsova and Semion Chudin rehearsing for “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux”

Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

Korean National Ballet’s Snow Scene in The Nutcracker, 
 

“I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.”
 
 
– KEVIN MCKENZIE, forward, Ballet Dancers in Career Transition
 

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