Don't judge a dancer

Dancers.

[swanlake1998]

lindsey donnell and sanford placide photographed by daphne lee

[strechanadi]

Alice Renavand, Mathieu Ganio

Giselle

photo: Agathe Poupeney

[kameliendame]

Patrick Dupond and Marie-Claude Pietragalla in Swan Lake

ph. Jacques Moatti

[dancersofcolor]

Francesca Hayward for Harper’s Bazaar

Photos by Betina Du Toit

[kameliendame]

Myriam Ould Braham in Nureyev’s production of La Bayadère

ph. Julien Benhamou

[sometimes-im-a-ballerina]

Details, taken at work

[kameliendame]

George Balanchine, Jewels (Rubies)

Darcey Bussel

ph. Tristram Kenton

[kameliendame]

Dorothée Gilbert and Hugo Marchand in rehearsal for Pierre Lacotte’s new ballet Le Rouge et Le Noir

ph. Svetlana Loboff

[melmothblog]

Nikolai Tsiskaridze in rehearsal with Angelina Vorontsova. Bolshoi Theatre. Photo by Mikhail Logvinov.

[melmothblog]

Vaganova Ballet Academy, 1999. Photographs by Arthur Elgort. 

[kameliendame]

Natalia Makarova and Anatoli Nisnevitch dancing a pas de deux from Giselle in Amsterdam, 1966

ph. Bob van Dam

[marymccartneyphotos]

Lone Dancer, 2004

“I was allowed behind the scenes at the Royal Ballet to photograph the grittier side of the ballet world. This ballerina at the end of a performance looks magnificent, but the fact that her dress is unhooked makes the picture for me.” -Photographer Mary McCartney

[driflloon]

co ss18

[swanlake1998]

carlos acosta photographed rehearsing as ali for le corsaire pas de deux by johan persson

[ballerinaproject]

Sydney Dolan - Philadelphia Ballet

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[swanlake1998]

nina ananiashvili photographed as the title role in giselle by larissa podentchouk

[swanlake1998]

gayle mckinney griffith and lydia abarca photographed by dth archives