Elena Vostrotina
in La Bayadere for Novosibirsk Ballet
via danseurprincipal
(via ballet-every-day)
Dame Alicia Makarova
Giselle
Edwin Denby about the prima ballerina assoluta (here in the Guardian):
“The beautiful slender feet in flight in the soubresauts of Act II, how she softly and slowly stretches the long instep like the softest of talons as she sails through the air; or in the échappés just after, how they flash quick as knives; or in the ‘broken steps’ of the mad scene of Act I, when, missing a beat, she extends one foot high up, rigidly forced, and seems to leave it there as if it were not hers… those wonderful light endings she makes, with the low drooping ‘keepsake’ shoulders, a complete quiet, sometimes long only as an eighth note, but perfectly still.”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (The Royal Ballet)
Zenaida Yanowsky
Chorégraphie: Chripstopher Wheeldon
Musique: Talbot
Amazing Queen of Hearts and hilarious “cupcake adagio” !
The Concert
Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris
Chorégraphie de Jérôme Robbins sur une musique de Chopin
So funny
Galina Ulanova and Konstantin Sergeyev
Le Lac des Cygnes
Chorégraphie: Lev Ivanov
Musique: Tchaikovsky
Ekaterina Maximova
The Nutcracker
Chorégraphie: Lev Ivanov
Musique: Tchaïkovski
A perfect sugar plum fairy.
Tamara Karsavina
The great ballerina practising
Pointes
Marie Taglioni
by Richard James Lane
printed by Graf & Soret,published by Rudolph Ackermann Jr lithograph
circa 1825-1850.
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Programme officiel des Ballets Russes, costume de Narcisse par Léon Bakst, 1911.
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Adeline Pastor
“Non je ne regrette rien”, Edith Piaf
dans La vie en rose, un ballet de Ben Van Cauwenbergh
Loie Fuller in her butterfly gown
Photograph by Charles Reutlinger
« ivresse d’art et, simultané, accomplissement industriel »,Mallarmé
