Sae Eun Park and Karl Paquette in Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Photo © Agathe Poupeney Olga Smirnova as Odile in Swan Lake at the Mariinsky Theatre, 31.10.2014 (x) photography: Nikolay Krusser Romeo and Juliet, Ballet Gala Ekaterina Kondaurova Anna Nevzorova, Paquita Bolshoi Ballet Academy Olga Smirnova as Odile in Swan Lake at the Mariinsky Theatre, […]
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Bolshoi’s Swan Lake Photos by Sasha Gouliaev Yekaterina Borchenko and Ivan Vasiliev in Don Quixote. Photos © Stas Levshin Nika Tskhvitaria and Vitaly Amelishko rehearsing The Nutcracker. Photos by Nikolai Krusser by Darian Volkova Yekaterina Borchenko and Ivan Vasiliev in Don Quixote. Photos © Stas Levshin Nika Tskhvitaria and Vitaly Amelishko […]
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Paris Opera Ballet artist in rehearsal Photo © Pierre-Elie de Pibrac PNB Professional Division students. Alexandra Ferri in Romeo and Juliet Sylvie Guillem and Jonathan Cope in Manon GRACE Diana Vishneva Mariinsky Theatre Mark Olich © Prix de Lausanne 2017 Paris Opera Ballet artists in rehearsal Photo © Pierre-Elie de Pibrac Svetlana Zakharova and […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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, […]
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Artists of the Mikhailovsky Ballet The Sleeping Beauty Photography: © Nikolay Krusser