Adult Ballet Inspiration

Images, stories, and video to inspire (not discourage) adults who started learning ballet in adulthood. Beauty and nobility without extremism. Other aesthetic blog: @polite-frivolity

[blksilvermist]

Judith Jamison, you are the essence of Black American Expression.

[margotfonteyns]

Virginia Johnson in Creole Giselle, Dance Theatre of Harlem, 1987

[galina-ulanova]

Raymonda (Bolshoi Ballet, 2013)

[kameliendame]

Kenneth MacMillan, Manon

Muriel Zusperreguy

ph. Julien Benhamou

[vintageeveryday]

Ballerinas of the Paris Opera Company’s Corps de Ballet, 1958. Photographed by Baron.

[yoiness]

National Ballet of Canada, 1957.

[olivier37]

Francesca Hayward & William Bracewell

« Dances at a Gathering" pas de deux

(Jerome Robbins) Royal Ballet

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Why Adult Ballet Students Should Be Taken Seriously

More than once, when I'm sporting my faded, well-loved ballet hoodie, some slight variation of this conversation ensues:

[balletroyale]

Francesca Hayward and William Bracewell in Dances at a Gathering (Royal Ballet) 

[kameliendame]

Sylvia [source]

Aurélie Dupont

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Olga Smirnova in Diamonds.

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Francesca Hayward, Akane Takada, and Alexander Campbell in Swan Lake.

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Akane Takada in Swan Lake.

[unwelcome-ozian]

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Anna Tikhomirova in Emeralds.

[mother-milk]

Olga Smirnova doing rehearsals

by Alexander Lavrentyev, Bolshoi Theatre 2012 (detail)

[thoughtkick]

“I have spent my whole life terrified. Scared of things that could go wrong. Things that might happen; things that might not happen. But in time I’ve seen that it’s fear that’s the real enemy. So get up. Get out there, and live the life you want to live.”

— Unknown