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The American Ballet Theatre is debuting its first same-sex pas de deux tonight, performed by Calvin Royal III and João Menegussi. A snippet of the performance has been circulating on TikTok (above), and it’s so beautiful, I was moved to tears. I tried to capture the tenderness of these thirty seconds in charcoal and pencil as best as I could. (Below.)

Ballet costume worn by Anna Pavlova for “The Swan”, silk and sequined cotton

believed to be worn c. 1910s-1920s

Strike of the Ballerinas

Alina Cojocaru

La Strada

Women: Marianela Nunez, Sarah Lamb, Akane Takada, Anna Rose O’Sullivan

The Principal Ladies of the Royal Ballet 

the nutcracker (1993)

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corps de ballet of the new york city ballet performing “waltz of the snowflakes”