There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.” ― Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans Maria Yakovleva Woman Magazine Photography: Marko Mestrovic Photo via Rohan Furnell’s Instagram Photographed by Darian Volkova Ekaterina Kondaurova in her senior year exam at Vaganova. Photographed by Darian Volkova Ballet Shooting with Eleonora. […]
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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 […]
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 Olesya Novikova in […]
Ballet Beauty
Svetlana Zakharova in Giselle Olga Smirnova and Semyon Chudin of the Bolshoi Ballet rehearsing La Belle, choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot. Yekaterina Borchenko and Ivan Vasiliev in Don Quixote. Photos © Stas Levshin Anya Grigoryan (now a dancer with Stanislavsky Theatre) Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Paquita Bolshoi Theatre, 2014 Photo by Remy […]
Ballet Beautiful
La Bayadere Photo by Ekaterina Lyzhina Yekaterina Kondaurova and Vladimir Shklyarov Uliana Lopatkina in Paquita Grand Pas. Mariinsky Ballet, Washington, Kennedy Center Opera House, 30 January 2015. © Natasha Razina. On opening night Lopatkina was the ballet’s reigning queen, dancing the principal role with royal grandeur and wonderful élan. An assured partner and attractive dancer, […]
Art Stuff
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. — Abraham Maslow Musée du Louvre ig: daisy.idek ‘ Alina Somova Jean Cocteau – Orphée Aux Yeux Perlés Orpheus with Pearl Eyes. 1950 Van Gogh Exhibit, Toronto Dovima modelling a Balenciaga gown, […]
Ballet Beautiful
Artists of the Mikhailovsky Ballet The Sleeping Beauty Photography: © Nikolay Krusser
Art Comes First
Isaac Israëls (Dutch, 1865-1934), The parrotman: the guard Ponsen in the Zoo, The Hague, c.1917. Oil on canvas, 125 x 76 cm. “I can only connect deeply or not at all.” — Anaïs Nin Art Comes First Sketches of Schumman’s Kinderszenen Op. 15 , No. 9, Ritter vom Steckenpferd (Knight of the Hobbyhorse), dated 1837. Henri […]