Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer
One of the greatest classical ballet dancers of all time.
Watch a clip of Fonteyn in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake here.
(via theballetbag)
Cojocaru, Rojo & Wildor in Symphonic Variations (by TheBunduBallerina) —-> GOLD
Sir Frederick Ashton’s masterpiece and a dream cast: Alina Cojocaru and Tamara Rojo. It can’t get better than that.
Alina in Symphonic Variations. Apparently she had to learn it in three days. She was 19 at the time.
(via theballetbag)
Ballet Goddess Diana Vishneva in full diva mode.
Diana Vishneva photographed by Patrick Demarchelier for Vogue Russia.
Awwwwww
(via x-eon)
A stop motion film on ballet’s most famous composer:
Later this year, Barry JC Purves will debut a puppet animation film that interprets the life and work of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the great Russian composer. You can’t watch any final footage quite yet. But you can enjoy a timelapse video that brings you inside the actual animation process
For film stills of the documentary, visit Joe Clarke’s website. (via Open Culture)
Alexei Ratmansky’s brilliant ballet “The Bright Stream” (via @naomip86 on Twitter)
The Royal Ballet 2011-2012 Season at a Glance
The Royal Ballet is set to return to Covent Garden in a few weeks with Balanchine’s Jewels. Taking inspiration from one of our favorite magazines, Wired, we geeked out and prepared this infographic showing what the company has in store for us over the next ten months
(via The Ballet Bag)
Scottish Ballet’s Tomomi Sato by photographer David Eustace.
Photographer David Eustace is renowned for his portraiture, but his newest subject demanded more than a still photo.
(via The Anthropologist)
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