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Rehearsal Passion

* * Beautiful dance rehearsal photography to share with you today captured through the lens of Ashley Taylor. * *   * * SWAN LAKE BALLET REHEARSAL AT THE VIENNA STATE BALLET  * * PHOTOGRAPHY  ©  ASHLEY TAYLOR * *   * * DANCERS: MARIANELA NUNEZ AND STEPHANE BULLION * *   PHOTOGRAPHY  ©  ASHLEY TAYLOR […]

Ballet Beautiful

    “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”   – Wendy Wasserstein     Mikhailovsky’s Le Corsaire Photos by Nikolai Krusser DULCINEA Paris Opera ballet corps de ballet La Bayadere photo: la petite photographe Алёнка Ковалёва via:vaganovaballetandmore Mikhailovsky’s Giselle Photo by Nikolai Krusser “Whatever your difficulties – a devastated […]

In the Pink Room: Home and Art

“As for me I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.”    ― Magenta Periwinkle       Vogue Living via:sannasundberg Oswald Oberhuber (Austrian, b. 1931)  Ohne Titel, 1985. Oil on canvas, 80 × 100 cm.     “Pink is a beautiful color, because it is one of the colors that the sun makes at […]

First comes sweat…

 * Iana Salenko shot by Dean Barucija of Pickled Thoughts    * * Paris Opera Ballet School class via:aurelie-dupont  * * “First comes the sweat, then comes the beauty.” – George Balanchine   * * Les Sylphides Photos by Ekaterina Lyzhina    * * Paris Opera Ballet School class via:aurelie-dupont    * * Photo by Karolina Kuras […]

Artistic

“She had a passionate longing for the garden, the darkness, the pure sky, the stars.” – Anton Chekhov, After the Theatre   * Lucia Lacarra & Marlon Dino perform Three Preludes Music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, choreography by Ben Stevenson CY TWOMBLY b. 1928 LYCIAN DRAWING (NIPHIDIA) Ballerina Diana Vishneva Russian Painter, Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin Portrait of Iya (the […]

Beautiful Art, Home and Interior Inspiration

Beautiful interior decor and art to inspire you today, enjoy. Alison Cayne’s Stunning West Village Townhouse The living area is set off by a pair of velvet George Smith sofas and a chandelier found at Clignancourt, the famed Paris flea market. Alison skipped a rug in favor of showing off the beautiful wood floors. via:onekingslane […]

The National Ballet of Canada

 * * “Nutcracker Season” with The National Ballet of Canada * * Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse Number of pairs of pointe shoes used for The Nutcracker since 1995: 6,722 Nutcracker Backstage life, National Ballet of Canada The National Ballet of Canada Behind the scenes of The Nutcracker Photographer Daniel Neuhaus Tina Pereira soars as the Bee in The Nutcracker […]

The Elegant Home

 * Beautiful, elegant home and art inspiration today. Enjoy and happy Friday. * via:vestidoslindosatelie Kitchen Copper Gustav Klimt Portrait of a Lady, en face (unfinished), 1917, oil on canvas, 67 x 65 cm, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz. The unfinished portrait belongs to the group of paintings left in Klimt’s atelier after his death. via:wingsviewathome gold flatware […]