Ballet Beautiful

“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
 
 

Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

The ethereal Ekaterina Kondaurova in the Mariinsky’s production of Jewels.

Photos by Gene Schiavone

Olga Smirnova and Artem Ovcharenko in ‘Lady of the Camellias’.

Kristina Shapran, Paquita Grand Pas variation

© Jack Devant

Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

The ethereal Ekaterina Kondaurova in the Mariinsky’s production of Jewels.

Photos by Gene Schiavone

Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

The ethereal Ekaterina Kondaurova in the Mariinsky’s production of Jewels.

Photos by Gene Schiavone

 Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

Kristina Shapran, Paquita Grand Pas variation

© Jack Devant

Olga Smirnova and Artem Ovcharenko in ‘Lady of the Camellias’.

The ethereal Ekaterina Kondaurova in the Mariinsky’s production of Jewels.

Photos by Gene Schiavone

Svetlana Zakharova in Jewels

Kristina Shapran, Paquita Grand Pas variation

© Jack Devant

 

“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.” 
 
― Erol Ozan
 
 
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