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.

[fonteyn]

Stina Quagebeur as “MYRTHA, Queen of the Willis" in AKRAM KHAN’S GISELLE

[margotfonteyns]

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

[whisperingsandwisps]

Royal Opera House

[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]

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Anna Tikhomirova in Emeralds.