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Alain Hanel - Photographies Image du Gala Russe - Roméo et Juliette - Olga Smirnova - Artem Ovcharenko

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Oksana Skorik and Vladimir Shklyarov in Diamonds.

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goodgolly-missmolly88: Oksana Skorik and Vladimir Shklyarov in Diamonds. lines tho

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George Balanchine, Serenade

New York City Ballet

Ph. Paul Kolnik

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Daria Ionova

©️ Svetlana Avvakum

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Natalia Osipova in Swan Lake (Royal Ballet)

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Olga Marchenkova in Balanchine’s Rubies (Jewels) at the Bolshoi Theatre

Photo by Damir Yusupov

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Pick One: Ballet Questions

Ask me to pick one or the other! Interpret them any way you want.

Bolshoi or Mariinsky?

Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev?

Royal Ballet or English National Ballet?

Tutus or Ballerina skirts?

Ulyana Lopatkina or Svetlana Zakharova?

American Ballet Theatre or New York City Ballet?

Frederick Ashton or Kenneth Macmillan?

Steven McRae or Vadim Muntagirov?

Swan Lake or The Sleeping Beauty?

Minkus or Tchaikovsky?

Act I or II of Giselle?

Marcelo Gomes or David Hallberg?

Olesya Novikova or Ekaterina Osmolkina?

Maria Khoreva or Maria Bulanova?

Gaynor Mindens: yes or no?

Yuri Fateyev or Makhar Vaziev?

Emeralds or Rubies or Diamonds?

Odette or Odile?

Sergei Polunin or Ivan Vasiliev?

Misty Copeland or Yulia Stepanova?

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Yekaterina Krysanova as Juliet, and Egor Khromushin as Paris, in Romeo and Juliet (Bolshoi Ballet, 2017)

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Jurgita Dronina in La Sylphide (English National Ballet)

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Semyon Chudin, Vadim Muntagirov and Denis Cherevychko

📷 Daria Klimentova

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So I’ve been seeing a lot of “you don’t come and tell me ballet is not a sport” thing on my dashboard. Well, this is me coming to all of you who say that and answering you: as far as my beliefs go, ballet is not a sport. And the fact that even ballet dancers believe that ballet should be on the freaking olympics makes me truly sad. Is that why we see so many videos where 9 year old girls do a thoushand pirouettes without any emotion on their faces? Is that why almost everyone these days has crazy extensions, but if you look closely, their dancing doesn’t touch anyone in any way? Is that why, for God’s sake, that some blogs on Tumblr who are blind enough to call themselves dance blogs show, countless times, endless pictures of contortionism and acrobacy? Well maybe those are sports, but ballet is not. And by saying this I don’t mean to underestimate other sports. I believe that anyone who loves something enough to sacrifice anything — social lives, bodies, minds, relationships — for the sake of it deserves everyone’s full respect. But differently from most of the olympic sports, ballet is to be felt, not evaluated and given numbers. Ballet is something to cry upon, to love upon, to dream upon, to feel the hairs on the back of your neck prickling with joy and sadness and fear and love. Not to cheer upon. Not to collect trophies. Not to compete upon. Ballet is an art. If you disagree, please look at the picture above. What do you first see? Do you see muscles and flexibility and stamina and strength? Great, cause so do I. But if those are the first and only things you see, that’s where you’re wrong. Because do you know what I first see? I see desire and pain and desperate love. I see feelings. And that’s what you should see too.

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throwback to when i said some truths. slay 18 yo me