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Villefranche-sur-Mer, France

António Casalinho | Photo by Nikita Alba | @nikita.alba #photography

Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov in Apollo (NYCB, 1975)

ph. Jack Vertoogian

Olga Smirnova and Artemy Belyakov in Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet, 2020)

Vladislav Lantratov as Onegin, and Olga Smirnova as Tatiana, in Onegin (Bolshoi Ballet)

Olga Smirnova as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (Bolshoi Ballet)

Emma von Enck in La Source (NYCB, 2020)

Svetlana Zakharova and David Hallberg in Swan Lake (Bolshoi Ballet)

this video always cheers me up

,,,, i love to have fun

by Alexander Lavrentyev, Bolshoi Theatre 2012 (detail)

ph. Laurent Philippe

Cassandra Trenary and Tyler Maloney in Harlequinade (ABT, 2019)

As in Perrault’s tale, the princess awakens with the Prince’s presence and not with the kiss, which follows their opening “conversation”; but once their lips connect, they remain locked for a large part of the ensuing duet, which, together with Smirnova’s floating arms and the alluring sentiment of Maillot’s flowing choreography, invests the duet with an absorbing tenderness, as the Prince leads La Belle towards the screen that had earlier held the imagery of his dreams.

Dog meets a horse