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, tomorrow is uncertain. Seize the day. Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero (Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65–8 b.c.)
Anastasia Kolegova Анастасия Колегова as “Odile” and Yevgeny Ivanchenko Евгений Иванченко as “Prince Siegfried”, “Swan Lake”, choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, costumes design by Galina Solovyova Галина Соловьева, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (historic stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia (May 18, 2013).
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Leah Terada and Miles Pertl, “Future Memory” (rehearsal), choreography by Alejandro Cerrudo, music by Peter Gregson (“Alan Doesn’t Fight” from the motion picture Forgotten Man, 2019, and “Gavottes” from the album Recomposed by Peter Gregson: Bach – The Cello Suites, 2018), Dustin O’Halloran (“An Ending, a Beginning” from the album Other Lights, 2019), Jóhann Jóhannsson (“Stuk” from the album Jóhann Jóhannsson: 12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann, 2019), Jean-Michel Blais (“outsiders” from the album Dans ma main, 2018), scenic desing by Reed Nakayama and Alejandro Cerrudo, costume design by Mark Zapone, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Katja Wünsche and Yannich Bittencourt, “Bella Figura”, choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Ballett Zürich, Zürich Opera House, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Polina Semionova Полина Семионова and Vladimir Malakhov Владимир Малахов, “Caravaggio”, choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti, music by Bruno Moretti/Claudio Monteverdi, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Berlin, Germany.
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Veronika Part Вероника Парт and Roberto Bolle, “Symphony Nº 9”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Dmitri Shostakovich Дмитрий Шостакович (Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, op. 70), costumes by Keso Dekker, American Ballet Theatre, New York City, USA.
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Evgenia Obraztsova Евгения Образцова, Yekaterina Krysanova Екатерина Крысанова and Artem Ovcharenko Артем Овчаренко, “Lost Illusions”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Leonid Desyatnikov Леонид Десятников, costume desing by Jerome Kaplan, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Palais Garnier, Paris, France (January 2014).
Agustina Galizzi, Ana Elisa Mena, Argenis Montalvo, Baly Tr, Erick Rodríguez, Mahaimiti Acosta, Marcela Guardia, Mayuko Nihei 二瓶 真由子, Mónica Barragán, Rodrigo Ortega and corps de ballet, “La Sylphide” – “La Sílfide y el Escocés” choreography by Terrence S. Orr after Auguste Bournonville, music by Herman Severin Løvenskiold, Compañía Nacional de Danza de México National Dance Company of Mexico, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City – México DF (June, 2016).
