Leanne Sexton Photo by Keith Dixon Bolshoi Ballet,  Aleksandr Taranov and Xenia Barbasheva via:youtube * * * “I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”   – Albert Camus, The Fall  * * *   The Australian Ballet in The Dream 1969 Olga Smirnova […]

Wishing you and yours a happy, beautiful, elegant and graceful holiday. English National Ballet rehearsing Swan Lake in-the-round (x) DANCERS ANNA TSYGANKOVA AND JOZEF VARGA IN GISELLE – HET NATIONAL BALLET – PHOTO BY SASHA GOULIAEV (ALEX GOULIAEV). Kristina Shapran Vaganova student Alena Mashinceva. from her ig. English National Ballet rehearsing Swan Lake in-the-round (x) Bayerisches Staatsballett‘s Lucia […]

Oksana Skorik as Raymonda Iana Salenko (x) Studio work with Melissa Hamilton and Jiri Bubenicek. Dresden SemperOper Ballett Ian Whalen Photography Iana Salenko (x) Rudolf Nureyev and Doreen Wells before a performance for the Ballet Hongroise. (Photo by Victor Blackman/Express/Getty Images). 1st July 1966. Oksana Skorik as Raymonda Oksana Skorik as Raymonda Diana Vishneva in “Live”, Amsterdam 2015. […]

Oxana Skorik as Giselle, Mariinsky Theatre jackdevant.com via:iwontdance * *     “Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense, but see, policeman don’t have to be beautiful at the same time.”  —George Balanchine * *   Olga Smirnova on pointe jackdevant.com via:iwontdance Kristina Kretova rehearsing Giselle Photo […]

Dorothée Gilbert in Études via: Aurelie -Dupont * * * * * Absolutely exquisite. * * * * * Those arms…. those bourrees… beautiful. * *   via:aurelie-dupont * *

  Yuhui Choe and Alexander Campbell in rehearsal for Ashton’s The Two Pigeons ph. Bill Cooper Oksana Skorik and Vladimir Shklyarov in Infra * * *  “You’re not a creature in body.  You exist as the stars exist, participating in their stillness, their immensity.” – Louise Glück, excerpt of Telescope * * *   Dorothée Gilbert, […]

Boston Ballet Principal Dancer Dusty Button in Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler: A Ballet by John Neumeier. via:lordbyron44 * * * * “Our profession is so insane it that it can rip you apart and put you back together in the same instant.” * — Sara Mearns talking about what it means to be a […]