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Irina Sapozhnikova in Le Corsaire.

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Elizaveta Kokoreva in Sleeping Beauty.

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Myriam Ould-Braham in Sleeping Beauty.

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Vaganova Ballet Academy, 1999. Photographs by Arthur Elgort. 

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Fumi Kaneko and Vadim Muntagirov in Grand Pas Classique (World Ballet Stars Gala 2023)

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Alena Kovaleva and Xander Parish in Diamonds.

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Fumi Kaneko and Vadim Muntagirov

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Francesca Hayward as Giselle

photo by Andrej Uspenski

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Anna Rose O’Sullivan as Spring Fairy in Cinderella (Royal Ballet 2023)

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Sae Maeda as Clara in The Nutcracker (Royal Ballet 2022)

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Members of the Australian Ballet in (beautifully) costumed rehearsals for David McAllister’s The Sleeping Beauty.

Photography by Kate Longley.  

ft. Sergei Polunin lookalike Callum Linnane

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Fumi Kaneko in rehearsal for Swan Lake

ph. Andrej Uspenski

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Vaganova Ballet Academy graduate (class of Irina Sitnikova, 2019), Mariinsky dancer, Alexandra Khiteeva in rehearsal at the Mariinsky Theatre.

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Vaganova Ballet Academy graduate (class of 2019) and Mariinsky dancer, Svetlana Savelieva, photographed by Maria Novinskaya.

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Vaganova Ballet Academy student Jordan Coutts. Photos by Darian Volkova.

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La Personne have just published their interview with Anastasia Nuykina, 2018 Vaganova Ballet Academy graduate who has recently been promoted to Second Soloist with the Mariinsky.

As always, I am happy to present by English translation of the interview. Read it here.

What did you find most difficult about your first season with the company?

The first thing that comes to mind is my performance in the “Swan Lake” corps de ballet. I panicked so hard, and my eyes were rolling around in my head as I was trying to maintain the lines, but all the girls were supportive and tried to help out. The lyrical Maria from “The Fountain of Bakhchisarai” was one of my most challenging roles. Margarita Garaldovna would stay behind in the evenings, and together we would work on each gesture and nuance together, and when I was preparing “La Bayadere’s” Gamzatti, we were joined by Kimin, who shared his thoughts about the ballet.

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Nikolai Tsiskaridze teaching a master-class in Palucca Hochschule für Tanz, Dresden.

Photos: Madlen Domaschke