Ballet Beautiful

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“I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.”
 
– George Balanchine
 
 
Paris Opera ballet dancer
Renaissance rehearsal in Balmain costumes
 
photo: Luc Braquet
 
Olga Smirnova and Karim Abdullin in ‘Emeralds’.
 

 
The Australian Ballet
Amber Scott. Photography Justin Ridler
 
Balmain,  Opéra de Paris
 
Photo © Gerard Uferas
 
 
“Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. 
 
One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria — sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness — performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.”
 
 
– LINCOLN KIRSTEIN, Four Centuries of Ballet
 
 
 
Olga Smirnova and Karim Abdullin in ‘Emeralds’.

 
Svetlana Zakharova and Andrei Merkuriev rehearsing Edward Liang’s “Distant Cries”
 
Photo: Maria- Helena Buckley
 
Paris Opera Ballet 
Renaissance rehearsal in Balmain costumes
 
photo: Luc Braquet
 

Marianela Nunez and Federico Bonelli in rehearsal for “Carmen”, The Royal Ballet

Photography: Andrej Uspensky

Paris Opera Ballet 
Renaissance rehearsal in Balmain costumes
 
photo: Luc Braquet
 
Olga Smirnova and Karim Abdullin in ‘Emeralds’.

Chopiniana, Polish National Ballet 
 
Photo by Remy Lamping

 
Paris Opera Ballet Dancer
Renaissance rehearsal in Balmain costumes
 
photo: Luc Braquet
 
Olga Smirnova and Karim Abdullin in ‘Emeralds’.
 

Balmain,  Opéra de Paris
 
Photo © Gerard Uferas
 
 
“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

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