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2016 Rio Olympics | Eventing : cross-country | © FEI/Richard Juilliart Ingrid Klimke and HALE BOB via:pinterest tendue “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” – C.G. Jung Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris Hannah O’Neill et Germain Louvet  Henri Cartier-Bresson Actor/Writer/Director John Huston, New York City 1946  “The […]

Ballet Beautiful

© Nikolay Krusser Anastasia Matvienko  pas de trois from “The Fairy Doll” (rehearsal and performing) choreography by Sergey Legat and Nikolay Legat revised by Konstantin Sergeyev, music by Joseph Bayer, Mariinsky Ballet, 2010 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 2010) Alessandra Tognoloni, Olga Smirnova, and Anjara Ballesteros being totally adorable dorks @balletwarrior © […]

Ballet Beautiful

“The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you’re asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. “   – Penelope Cruz     […]

Ballet Beautiful

© Darian Volkova Дарьян Волкова Elena Trushina Елена Трушина (Lenni Try), Mikhailovsky Ballet Миха́йловский теaтр Stunning Alena Kovaleva, Vaganova Ballet Academy 2016 graduate and member of the Bolshoi’s corps de ballet, photographed by Katerina Kravtsova. via:13allerina Dorothee Gilbert as Dulcinea. Ulyana Lopatkina in Swan Lake Alina Cojocaru Alena Kovaleva, Vaganova Ballet Academy 2016 graduate Ekaterina […]

Ballet Beautiful

  Viktoria Tereshkina as Aurora. Alina Somova Photo by: Sasha Gouliaev Yuhui Choe Royal Ballet Francesca Hayward in Rhapsody Sveta Ketevan Papava. Ekaterina Kondaurova in La Bayadere Backstage jackdevant.com Isabelle Ciaravola. Cecilia Kerche Svetlana Zakharova in The Dying Swan (x) BALLERINA POLINA SEMINOVA – STAATSBALLETT BERLIN  PHOTO BY NIKOLAY KRUSSER

Ballet Beautiful

Sylvie Guillem © Kiyonori Hasegawa for Japan Times Svetlana Zakharova and Patrick de Bana in Digital Love. BALLERINA BRITTANY CAVACO – THE WASHINGTON BALLET PHOTO BY GENE SCHIAVONE Svetlana Zakharova © Vikki Sloviter Lia Cirio, Boston Ballet English National Ballet artist Jeanette Kakareka (x) Natalia Osipova as Giselle. Photo: Emma Kauldhar by courtesy of the ROH. […]

Artistic Beauty

“Let there be an opening into the quiet that lies beneath the chaos, where you find the peace you did not think possible and see what shimmers within the storm.”     — Jan Richardson        Claude Monet LA SEINE À VÉTHEUIL The Australian Ballet Photography Kate Longley   Flowers before a Garden […]

practice. practice.

  “Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. “   – Ludwig van Beethoven   Maria Khoreva feet via her Instagram via:rubiflax Bolshoi Academy student Stanislava Postnova. from her ig.   “I know you’ve heard it a […]