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«Па де катр» | bigenc

Swans of the Royal Ballet.

Blue flowers | karina_zhitkova

Bolshoi | ruby.tear

Junior exams at Vaganova Ballet Academy. May 2018. Photos by Andrew Lush.

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La Bayadère (Queensland Ballet, 2018)

photographed by Marina Dmitrieva

Medium: oil,canvas

Le Tombeau de Couperin (NYCB)

Maya Dumchenko in Serenade (Mariinsky Ballet)

Hyltin, one of the company’s most versatile dancers and finest dancing actresses, was the Sylph. Hyltin is possessed both of technique – her turns are poised and lovely, her jumps airy, her footwork piquant – and the ability to come alive onstage, reacting with seeming spontaneity to everything around her.

Russia, Moscow. 1994. The Bolshoi. Ballet performance of “The Nutcracker suite”.  Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

Russia. 1994. Moscow, Bolshoi theater. The dancer Nina Semizorova. Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

Tutus for Don Quixote (Paris Opera Ballet, 2018)

France. Paris. Dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet at the Opera Garnier. Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

France. Paris. Dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet rehearsing inside the “Petitpa” room, Opera Garnier. Gueorgui Pinkhassov.