Be wise, taste wines and adjusts your boundless hope to the cup of life, which is small. Even as we speak cruel time flees jealous. Harvest the present day, the morrow is uncertain. Seize the day. Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero (Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65–8 b.C.)
Olesya Novikova Олеся Новикова and Julian MacKay, “Chopiniana Шопениана”, choreography and scenario by Mikhail Fokine revised by Agrippina Vaganova Агриппины Вагановой, music by Frédéric Chopin. As part of the project Vaslav Nijinsky 130º Anniversary, 2019 Dance.Dance.Dance., Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater Большой драматический театр имени Г. А. Товстоногова, Saint Petersburg, Russia (October 14, 2019).
“Dance of Snowflakes”, “Nutcracker Щелкунчик”, libretto by Marius Petipa as adapted by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreo and direction by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, scene design by Anatoly Nezhny, costume design by Olga Polyanskaya Ольга Полянская, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia.
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова as “Odette” and Constantine Allen as “Prince Siegfried”, “Swan Lake Het Zwanenmeer”, choreography by Rudi van Dantzig after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов, choreography of character dances of the third act by Toer van Schayk, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, set and costume design by Toer van Schayk, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands (March 22 to April 18).
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич (Bolshoi Ballet) as “Niriti” (daughter of the Queen of the Heavens), pas de deux from “The Talisman”, music by Ricardo Drigo, choreography by Marius Petipa, 2013 Vilnius Dance Open Ballet Festival, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania (November 2013).
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Marianela Núñez as “Odette” and William Brackwell as “Prince Siegfried”, “Swan Lake” (adagio), choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов, additional choreography by Liam Scarlett and Sir Frederick Ashton, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, set and costume design by John F. Macfarlane, 2023 Les Etoiles Gala, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy (January 28).
Ballet: The Best Photographs 