dance

Ballet Beautiful

      Rehearsing The Sleeping Beauty    Alberta Ballet, 2018     Yulia Makhalina as the Dying Swan    Mariinsky Ballet, 2014       Nina Kaptsova in The Nutcracker    Bolshoi Ballet     Carli Samuelson in Petite Mort    Pacific Northwest Ballet     Yulia Makhalina as the Dying Swan    Mariinsky […]

Behind the Scenes: Ballet Beautiful

    Paris Opera Ballet in new Chanel costumes   Variations   photo: Lara Giliberto         Melissa Hamilton, Reece Clark   Manon   photo: Andrei Uspenski     Paris Opera Ballet   Raymonda rehearsal   photo: Svetlana Loboff   Paris Opera Ballet in new Chanel costumes   Variations   photo: Lara Giliberto […]

Jazz it up

“Life is a lot like jazz.  It’s the best when you improvise.” — George Gershwin Saxophonist  Mariusz Drawings Jazz it up a little Music in Film: All That Jazz (1979) dir. Bob Fosse   Billie Holiday singing at the Downbeat Club in New York, 1947, photo by William Gottlieb   Chicago (2002) dir. Rob Marshall […]

Ballet Beautiful

Evgenia Obraztsova and Alexander Volchkov (The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow) in Raymonda (Adagio, 2nd act), music by Alexander Glazunov, choreography by Yuri Grigorovich. Weltstar Gala 2019, organized by Kourlaev and Esina Production, shot on 1.12.2019 in Volkstheater Vienna. Photography: Jack Devant Iana Salenko and Dinu Tamazlacaru (Staatsballett Berlin) in La Halte de Cavalerie Pas de deux, music […]

BALLET BEAUTIFUL: Misty Copeland

NEW YORK CITY DANCE PROJECT Misty Copeland Principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre.    Dancing with Alexandre Hammoudi, Principal with American Ballet Theatre “After dancing Swan Lake, you feel like you can conquer the world.” NEW YORK CITY DANCE PROJECT Visit:  ArtPassionZsaZsaBellagio

Ballet Beautiful

Uliana Lopatkina and Andrey Ermakov via:goodgolly Ekaterina Shipulina in Paquita.   Meaghan Grace Hinkis Soloist, The Royal Ballet   NYC Dance Project     Svetlana Zakharova as Odette   Oksana Skorik in Walpurgist Night.   Uliana Lopatkina and Andrey Ermakov via:goodgolly Tiler Peck   Principal dancer, New York City Ballet   NYC Dance Project “I […]

Ballet Beautiful

Ekaterina Kondaurova in Grand Pas Classique. Nikisha Fogo and Denys Cherevychko in Sylvia, music by Léo Delibes, choreography by Manuel Legris.    Vienna State Ballet (Wiener Staatsballett, Wiener Staatsoper). Benois de la Danse Gala, shot 21.5.2019, in The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.   Photography:jackdevant.com via:dancebook Evelina Godunova (Staatsballett Berlin) as Medora (Astana Opera, Kazakhstan) in Le […]

Ballet Beautiful

Ulyana Lopatkina as the Dying Swan    Mariinsky Ballet Source:jackdevant.com  via:zsazsabellagio Egor Khromushin, Svetlana Zakharova and Karin Abdullin in Bolshoi’s La Fille Du Pharaon   Photo by Mikhail Logvinov   Ulyana Lopatkina as the Dying Swan    Mariinsky Ballet Source:jackdevant.com  Akane Takada for Vogue Japan. (x) Ulyana Lopatkina as the Dying Swan    Mariinsky Ballet […]