Adore ballet

Keep dancing because "everyone can dance. It doesn't matter, it's all about how you express yourself and how smart you use what you have." -Maria Kochetkova

[strechanadi]

Olga Smirnova

La bayadere

[ryanishka]

10 minutes before this I seriously couldn’t balance on this bosu ball on BOTH feet, holding onto the wall…it’s called character development

[i-want-to-be-a-ballerina]

I was literally thinking yesterday how cool it would be to try this!

[aurelie-dupont]

Paris Opera corps de ballet in Balanchine’s Jewels - Diamonds

Photo © Laurent Philippe

[theatremama]

#HappyBirthday! #Ballerina - @julietdoherty at #TempeTownLake #Tempe #Arizona #Romper by @nastygal #NastyGal #ballerinaproject_ #ballerinaproject #ballet #dance by ballerinaproject_

[passioneperladanza]

Evgenia Obraztsova and Xander Parish in Giselle

© Alexandra Photographer

[aurelie-dupont]

“Swan Lake can be a nightmare. To make a Swan Lake that is worth it, every single movement and breath has to be perfect. When you have an idea of Swan Lake that is as high as that it’s almost impossible.”

- Sylvie Guillem x 

[ekaterinakrysanova]

[lasylphidedubolchoi]

Ekaterina Krysanova in Bolshoi’s La Sylphide

Credits to BEK studios

[passioneperladanza]

Svetlana Zakharova in La Fille du Pharaon

Photo by Ekaterina Afanasyeva

[mariadoval]

[yoiness]

Anastasia Kolegova and Danila Korsuntsev photo © Ivan Klimychev

[lasylphidedubolchoi]

Svetlana Zakharova and Artem Shpilevskiy in Bolshoi’s Class Concert

Photo by Damir Yusupov (?)

[mamachonnes]

Michaela DePrince for Dance Spirit Magazine, September 2015!

[13allerina]

Danielle Rowe & Linnar Looris in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s “Song of the Earth.” Photo by Amitava Sarkar

[undiscoveredhours]

Forget walking in heels. This is what someone’s foot looks like inside of a pointe shoe

[queenofthedryads]

Evgenia Obraztsova in Sentimental Waltz.

[broken--ballerina]

Ballet class

[prosthetic-dance]

Jurgita Dronina in The Sleeping Beauty

© Serguei Endinian