Elegance

“Ballet is a universe of the imagination, a place of magic and enchantment, beauty and romance. Its many worlds vibrate with graceful dancers, glorious music, and sumptuous costumes.” - TG All things ballet; students, schools, companies, history, costumes and music. My favourites: Ballerinas: - Svetlana Zakharova - Oleysa Novikova - Olga Smirnova - Polina Semionova - Aurelie Dupont - Uliana Lopatinka Male dancers: - Roberto Bolle - Mathieu Ganio - Semyon Chudin - Hugo Marchand - Leonid Sarafanov Schools: - Vaganova - Paris Opera Ballet Ballets: - Giselle - Raymonda - The Sleeping Beauty - Esmeralda - La Sylphide

[strechanadi]

Dorothée Gilbert, Mathieu Ganio

Giselle

photo: Laurent Philippe

[laurapetrie]

“At the end of Swan Lake, when she left the stage in her great white tutu, i would have followed her to the end of the world.” – Rudolph Nureyev

[dolcesostenuto]

The Nutcracker, Mariinsky Ballet

[crystalline-pleasure]

Stéphane Bullion and Laura Hecquet

The Lady of the camellias @Paris Opera Ballet

© Svetana Loboff

[crystalline-pleasure]

Stéphane Bullion and Laura Hecquet

The Lady of the camellias @Paris Opera Ballet

© Svetana Loboff

[dozydawn]

Stroboscopic photographs of the New York City Ballet’s production of Jewels, 1967. Photographed by Gjon Mili.

[agelessphotography]

Young Ballerinas, Palais Garnier Opera House, Paris, Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1954

gelatin silver print Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, England

[strechanadi]

Naïs Duboscq

Giselle

photo: Yonathan Kellerman

[galina-ulanova]

Alina Somova and Nikita Korneyev in Chopiniana (Mariinsky Ballet)

[kameliendame]

Jerome Robbins, Afternoon of a Faun

Myriam Ould Braham

ph. Laurent Philippe

[lovelyballetandmore]

Hannah O'Neill | Photo by Tyrone Singleton | Dancers Eye

[galina-ulanova]

Angelina Vlashinets as Paulina, Yuri Ostrovsky as Antigonus, and Igor Tsvirko as Leontes, in The Winter’s Tale (Bolshoi Ballet, 2019)

[dolcesostenuto]

The Nutcracker, Mariinsky Ballet

[hoesonpointe]

Precious Adams & Fernando Coloma, English National Ballet

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[balletroyale]

Mathias Heymann in The Sleeping Beauty (Paris Opera Ballet) 

[galina-ulanova]

Vadim Muntagirov and Beatriz Stix-Brunell in The Winter’s Tale (Royal Ballet, 2014)

[balletroyale]

Aurelie Dupont and Roberto Bolle in Manon (Paris Opera Ballet)