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.)
Anna Okuneva Анна Окунева, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр (2007-2017), Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus – MAMT) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (since 2017), Moscow, Russia.
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Elena Yevseyeva Елена Евсеева (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр), “Animated Frescoes” from “The Little Humpbacked Horse”, music by Cesare Pugni, choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon, version of Natalia Dudinskaya Наталья Дудинская, 2013 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Floor Eimers, “Empire Noir”, choreography by David Dawson, music by Greg Haines, costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, from program “Cool Britannia”, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. World premiere: June 17, 2015.
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Anna Naumenko Анна Науменко, Darya Elmakova Дарья Ельмакова, Svetlana Smirnova Светлана Смирнова and Anna Ignatyeva Анна Игнатьева (soloists at the Leonid Yakobson Ballet), “Pas de Quatre” from “Choreographic Miniatures”, choreography by Leonid Yakobson Леонид Якобсон, music by Vincenzo Bellini, costumes by Tatiana Noginova Татьяна Ногинова, 2014 Gala Concert Day of Dance, Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory. The concert commemorated the 110th birth anniversary of Pyotr Gusev, Leonid Yakobson and George Balanchine (April 29, 2014).
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Sarah Lamb as “Masha Prozorova Маша Прозорова” and Vadim Muntagirov Вадим Мунтагиров as Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Vershinin Александр Вершинин, “Farewell Pas de Deux” from “Winter Dreams”, libretto and choreography by Sir Kenneth MacMillan based on the play “Three Sisters Три Cестры” by Anton Chekhov Антон Чехов, music “Romance in F Major op. 51” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, set and costume design by Peter Farmer, 2015 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Alexandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 27).
Note I: Sarah Lamb and Vadim Muntagirov Вадим Мунтагиров are principal dancers from The Royal Ballet, London, England.
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Marianela Núñez, “Song of the Earth”, choreography by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, music by Gustav Mahler (“Das Lied von der Erde”), The Royal Ballet, London, England.
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Hee Seo as “Gamzatti” and Gillian Murphy as “Nikiya”, “La Bayadère, choreography by Natalia Makarova Наталья Макарова after Marius Petipa, music by Ludwig Minkus, specially arranged by John Lanchbery, costumes by Theoni V. Aldredge, American Ballet Theatre, New York City, USA.
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Lindsi Dec, “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, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Svetlana Lunkina Светлана Лунькина, Evan McKie and Rex Harrington (répétiteur), “Chroma”, choreography by Wayne McGregor, music by Joby Talbot and Jack White III, costume by Moritz Junge, The National Ballet of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
“Le Lac des Cygnes – Swan Lake”, choreography by Rudolf Nureyev Рудольф Нуреев, Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, set design by Ezio Frigerio, costume design by Franca Squarciapino, libretto by Vladimir Begichev Владимир Бегичев and Vassili Geltser, Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris, Paris, France.
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Victoria Zaripova Виктория Зарипова, “Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness”, choreography, staging and costumes by Nacho Duato, music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Mikhailovsky Ballet Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Olga Esina Ольга Есина as “Ballerina”, Kirill Kourlaev Кирилл Курлаев as “Commissar”, Roman Lazik as “Partner”, Jacopo Tissi as “Freund”, Eno Peci as “Lehrer”, “Red Giselle – Красная Жизель”, choreography by Boris Eifman Бориса Эйфман, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, Alfred Sсhnittke, Georges Bizet, sets and costumes by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Eifman Ballet Театр балета Бориса Эйфмана, Wiener Staatsballett Vienna State Ballet, Vienna, Austria.
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