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Moira Shearer dancing an excerpt from Swan Lake in The Red Shoes  (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

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Balanchine’s Serenade at the Mariinsky Theatre

Photo by Marc Olich

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The Scottish Ballet

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Guillem at 20, in her dressing room for “Swan Lake” at the Paris Opera, 1985

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Powell and Pressburger, The Red Shoes, 1948

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Zhanna Ayupova as Giselle

photo by Nina Alovert

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playing it cool: joan smalls, sasha pivovarova, raquel zimmerman, caroline trentini and fei fei sun by annie leibovitz for vogue us september 2014

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Diva Assolut. Erin O’Connor by Koto Bolofo, Vogue Deutsch October 2005

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Backstage at the Mariinsky Theatre after Swan Lake

Photo by Marc Olich

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lucan gillespie by sean & seng in “violet femmes” for dazed and confused fw 2015.

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Dancer Adjusting Her Tights - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Evgenia Obraztsova in La Sylphide at Paris Opera Ballet.

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Alisa Ahmann in “Flights of fancy” by Willy Vanderperre for Vogue US, October 2015.

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Bolshoi’s Giselle

Photo by Ekaterina Vladimirova

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Vogue US Oct 2010 ‘Technicolour’ - Raquel Zimmermann & Anja Rubik by Inez & Vinoodh