Balletomane

BALLETOMANEASSOLUTA - A ballet blog. Balletomane noun \ba-ˈle-tə-ˌmān\ : a devotee of ballet Assoluta adj \as"u-lOO'tu; It.äs"sô-lOO'tä\ : absolute, supreme, a prima ballerina assoluta Posts consist of graceful, extraordinary ballerinas and ballerinos worth noticing. Dancers to moving pictures (gifs) .

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The Royal Ballet as Snowflakes in The Nutcracker

📷 ROH

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Alisa Sodoleva, “The Sleeping Beauty”, Mikhailovsky Ballet.

Ah… perfection.

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Artists of Paris Opera Ballet in Balanchine’s Le Palais de Cristal 1st and 2nd movement

Dancer’s name on the caption

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Anastasia Kolegova as Gulnara

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Misty Copeland for Cosmopolitan August 2016

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Yasmine Naghdi and David Donnelly in rehearsal for the Invitation at the Royal Opera House

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© Mark Olich Марк Олич

Ulyana Lopatkina and Andrey Ermakov, “La Bayadere”, Mariinsky Ballet

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Olesya Novikiva Photo: G. Schiavone

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Olga Smirnova

Swan lake

photo: A. Uspenski

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Olga Smirnova

Don Q - Kitri

photo: L. Hassan

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Vaganova Ballet Academy graduates, Alena Kovaleva, Vera Segova and Vaganova Ballet Academy student, Daria Ionova, at the 2016 Pro Viva la Dance concert. 

Photos by Jack Devant. 

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Vaganova student Daria Ionova

source

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Marie-Agnès Gillot by Guillaume Reynaud

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Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Svetlana Lunkina rehearsing and performing “Giselle”, with the help of Ekaterina Maximova. Bolshoi Theatre.

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The Bolshoi Ballet season opens with the London premiere of a new restaging of Alexei Fadeyechev’s staging of Petipa’s “Don Quixote” at the Royal Opera House, 25-28 July 2016

On photo (1,2,3,4): Olga Smirnova as Kitri and Denis Rodkin as Basil in “Don Quixote”, Bolshoi Ballet, London, Royal Opera House 25 July 2016

On photo (5,6): Anna Tikhomirova (Street Dancer), Ruslan Skvortsov (Espada)

On photo (7,8): Margarita Shrainer as Kitri    

Photos © Foteini Christofilopoulou 

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Myriam Ould-Braham

ph. Benoîte Fanton