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.)
Daria Khokhlova Дарья Хохлова, “La Sylphide” (backstage), music by Herman Severin Løvenskiold, libretto by Adolphe Nourrit and Philippo Taglioni, choreography by August Bournonville, production and new choreography by Johan Kobborg, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Yekaterina Kondaurova Екатерина Кондаурова, “Middle Duet”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Yury Khanon (Middle Symphony, Op. 40), costumes by Holly Hynes, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Floor Eimers and Young Gyu Choi, “Pas/Parts”, choreography, lighting and set design by William Forsythe, music by Thom Willems (Pas/Parts), costume design by Stephen Galloway, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Polina Semionova Полина Семионова, “The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude”, choreography, staging and lighting by William Forsythe, music by Franz Schubert (Symphony Nº 9 in С major, Op. 31. Finale), costume by Stephen Galloway, StaatsBallett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Berlin, Germany.
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Maia Makhateli მაია მახათელი, “Pas/Parts”, choreography, lighting and set design by William Forsythe, music by Thom Willems (Pas/Parts), costume design by Stephen Galloway, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Alexandra Iosifidi Александра Иосифиди as “Carmen” and Igor Kolb Игорь Колб as “Escamillo” (also known as “Torero”), “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreography and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Nina Zmievets Нина Змиевец and Oleg Markov Олег Марков, “Anna Karenina” (based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy Лев Толстой), choreography by Boris Eifman Борис Эйфман, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, costumes by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Eifman Ballet Театр балета Бориса Эйфман, Carré Theatre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (November 27, 2012).
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Olesya Novikova Олеся Новикова as “Juliet”, “Romeo and Juliet”, choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, music by Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Andrian Piotrovsky Адриана Пиотровского, Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, Sergei Radlov Сергея Радлов and Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, based on the tragedy by William Shakespeare, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Nina Poláková and Davide Dato, “Rubies”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Igor Stravinsky Игорь Стравинский, (Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra), costumes by Varvara Jmoudsky (better known as Barbara Karinska or simply Karinska) from “Jewels” (“Rubies”, “Emeralds” and “Diamonds”), Wiener Staatsballett Vienna State Ballet, Vienna, Austria
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Sarah Orza, Lesley Rausch and Batkhurel Bold, “Apollo”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Igor Stravinsky Игорь Стравинский (“Apollon Musagète”), costumes by Barbara Karinska (since 1957 performed in minimal practice clothes), Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Léonore Baulac, “The Sleeping Beauty – La Belle au Bois Dormant”, choreography by Rudolf Nureyev Рудольф Нуреев after Marius Petipa, based on the fairy story by Charles Perrault, music by Pyotr Tchaïkovski Пётр Чайковский, scenery and costumes by Nicholas Georgiadis, Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Garnier, Paris, France (October 2 to 30, 2020).
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Beatriz Stix-Brunell, “Trespass”, choreography by Alastair Marriott and Christopher Wheeldon from “Metamorphosis: Titian 2012” [“Diana and Acteon” (by Liam Scarlett, Will Tuckett and Jonathan Watkins), “Machina”(by Kim Brandstrup and Wayne McGregor) and “Trespass” (Alastair Marriott and Christopher Wheeldon)], The Royal Ballet, London, England.
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Emily Kikta, “Brahms-Schönberg Quartet”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Johannes Brahms [Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (1861) orchestrated by Arnold Schönberg (1937)], costume by Barbara Karinska, New York City Ballet, New York City, USA.
Premiere on April 12, 1966 by New York City Ballet at New York State Theater, New York City, USA.
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Maia Makhateli მაია მახათელი and Young Gyu Choi, “Le Corsaire”, choreography by Samuil Andrianov, Agrippina Vaganova Агриппины Вагановой, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани, music by Riccardo Drigo, Ludwig Minkus and Baron Boris Fitinhof-Schell from program “Back to Ballet – Classic”, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Valeria Zapasnikova Валерия Запасникова and Ivan Zaytsev Иван Зайцев, “Bolero Морфий”, music by Maurice Ravel, choreography and stage design by Ivan Vasiliev Иван Васильев, costumes by Alexandra Leonidova Александра Леонидова, light by Alexander Kibitkin Александр Кибиткин. Répétiteur Elvira Khabibullina Эльвира Хабибуллина from “Morphine Морфий. Blind Affair Слепая связь and Bolero Болеро”, Mikhailovsky Ballet Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 15, 2016).
Premier: Hermitage Theatre Эрмитажном театре, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 15, 2016).
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Igone de Jongh and Casey Herd, “Fantasía”, choreography by Hans van Manen, music by Johann Sebastian Bach [Choral overture, Prelude in a minor (Fantasie)], costumes by Keso Dekker from “Back to Bach”, Het Nationale Ballet The Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 