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Ballet Beautiful

      Matrona Ivanova           Marianela Nunez as the Lilac Fairy.     Nina Kaptsova in The Nutcracker    Bolshoi Ballet           Olga Smirnova in Swan Lake    Bolshoi Ballet             Ana Albutashvili, Miki Mizutani, Mariko Sasaki and Alys Shee performing […]

Ballet Beautiful

  National Ballet of Canada   Viktoria Tereshkina and Vladimir Shklyarov in La Bayadere.   MARIINSKY BALLET       Renata Shakirova and Yevgeny Ivanchenko in Romeo and Juliet.     National Ballet of Canada   National Ballet of Canada      Heather Ogden reigns as Queen Myrtha in Giselle       Akane Takada […]

Ballet Beautiful

San Francisco Ballet Renata Shakirova in her 2013 classical ballet exam. Mariinsky Ballet National Ballet of Canada Alina Cojocaru in Sleeping Beauty Yuhui Choe and Alexander Campbell in Voices of Spring. Photo by Dave Morgan San Francisco Ballet Tiler Peck in Allegro Brillante National Ballet of Canada   Renata Shakirova in her 2013 classical ballet […]

Ballet Beautiful

    Maya Dumchenko in Serenade    Mariinsky Ballet       Olga Smirnova and Vladislav Lantratov     Paloma Herrera in La Bayadère    ABT   Olga Smirnova and Vladislav Lantratov   Ako Kondo in La Bayadère    The Australian Ballet, 2014   Olga Smirnova and Vladislav Lantratov     Vasily Tkachenko as the […]

Ballet Beautiful

La Bayadère, music by Ludwig Minkus, libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergey Khudekov, choreography by Nacho Duato after Marius Petipa, stage designer, costume designer Angelina Atlagić, lighting design by Brad Fields, musical director of the production Pavel Sorokin.   The Mikhailovsky Theatre. Photography: Jack Devant Oksana Skorik in Swan Lake. Evgenia Obraztsova and Alexander Volchkov (The […]

Ballet Beautiful

Irina Dvorovenko and Cory Stearns in Lady of the Camellias (ABT, 2010) Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae rehearsing Romeo and Juliet Gillian Murphy in the RNZB studio during rehearsal (2012) Yulia Stepanova as Aspiccia, and Artem Ovcharenko as Taor, in La Fille du Pharaon (Bolshoi Ballet) Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae rehearsing Romeo and Juliet […]

Ballet Beautiful

  Swan Lake (Boston Ballet, 2014) Sae Eun Park photographed performing in Serge Lifar’s variation (+ costume close ups) by Agathe Poupeney Marianela Nunez   photo: Paola Kudacki         Myriam Ould-Braham and Mathieu Ganio in Giselle    Paris Opera Ballet     Sae Eun Park photographed performing in Serge Lifar’s variation (+ […]

Ballet Beautiful

  Olga Smirnova on pointe   Photography: Jack Devant       Nina Kaptsova in The Nutcracker    Bolshoi Ballet       Basia Rhoden       Brilliant and beautiful Anna Okuneva first soloist with Stanislavsky Music Theatre  Photo © Svetlana *Sila* Avvakum   instagram               The beautiful […]