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[ryanishka]

Alina Somova rehearsing Wayne McGregor’s “Infra” with Vladimir Shklyarov laying on the floor in the background

via Alina’s instagram, photo by Svetlana Avvakum

[balletwarrior]

Jillian Vanstone for Fashion Magazine, photographed by Reynard Li

[kameliendame]

Développé devant, á la seconde, en arabesque

Myriam Ould-Braham

[gorbigorbi]

"Manon" with Diana Vishneva and Marcelo Gomes

[ryanishka]

"meet me downtown for a few"

preview of some pics I took on my aunt’s roof in brooklyn earlier today

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Ryan the happy sunshine

[yoiness]

© Luis Casanova Sorolla

Wiener StaatsBallett – Vienna State Ballet

[thecrystalpalace]

CARLA FRACCI

[prosthetic-dance]

Yuhui Choe in As One

[zacharushka]

Sergei Polunin in rehearsal for La Bayadere at Novosibirsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre.

[ryanishka]

😏

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Madeleine Eastoe,   Photograph by Lynette Wills

[t-u-t-u-s]

wait is that her own leg behind her omg

[lovedancealways]

leg game on pointe

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Madeleine Eastoe? More like Madeleine NORTHtoe because damn that foot is up

[barre--maid]

Aw it’s always so exciting to see dancers of the Australian Ballet on tumblr!

[lasylphidedubolchoi]

David Hallberg certainly enjoying himself in Lost Illusions at the Bolshoi Theatre

[everythingplus-thekitchensink]

he looks like a crazy conductor

[ryanishka]

I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING

[kylaarose]

Ballet Austin week deux

[ryanishka]

HEY KYLA I KNOW SKMEONE THERE

[balletwarrior]

INSANE PASSES in PNB’s Sleeping Beauty

[loverussianballet]

Ulyana Lopatkina curtain call, The Swan Lake in Mariinsky 2012

В главных партиях Одетта-Одиллия – Ульяна Лопаткина Принц Зигфрид – Евгений Иванченко Ротбарт – Андрей Ермаков

Дирижер Валерий Овсяников

[theballetblog]

Carla Fracci, one of the greatest “Giselles” to ever grace the stage

[books0977]

Ulyana Lopatkina in Carmen-Suite. Photo by N. Razina, courtesy Maryinsky. 2010.

Lopatkina’s is a deliberate, merciless sensuality, shrewdly tailored to her style. Both torero and prey, her Carmen has learned to use her arresting legs for power or pleasure, and she is caught in her own game.

[derpova]

Natalia Osipova and Carlos Acosta in Manon (performing during the Royal Ballet tour to Russia). Photo: Mikhail Logvinov.