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.)
Keenan Kampa Sinatra as “Odette”, “Swan Lake Лебединое Oзеро”, 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, Saint Petersburg, Russia (January 2013).
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Viktorina Kapitonova Викторина Капитонова and Manuel Renard, “In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated”, choreography, scenic, costume and original lighting design by William Forsythe, music by Thom Willems, Ballett Zürich, Opernhaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Iana Salenko and Marian Walter (dancers from Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet), “Elegy” (Elegie der Herzen) choreography by Raimondo Rebeck, music by Arvo Pärt (Spiegel Im Spiegel-Mirror in the mirror by David Troy Francis), 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16)
Svetlana Zakharova Светлана Захарова, “Revelation”, music by John Williams (Schindler’s List soundtrack), choreography by Motoko Hirayama, 2015 Gala des Etoiles, Grand Théâtre Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (May 16, 2015).
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Ulyana Lopatkina Ульяна Лопаткина as “Anna Karenina Анна Каренина”, “Anna Karenina Анна Каренина”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский (2010), music by Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, sets and costumes by Mikael Melbye, based on the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy Лев Толстой, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва as “Manon Lescaut” and Marcelo Gomes as “Chevalier Des Grieux”, “Manon” (rehearsal for bedroom scene), choreography by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, music by Jules Messenet, based on the novel “Manon Lescaut” by Antoine François Prévost (Abbé Prévost), scenery and costume by Nicholas Georgiadis, 2011 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 2011).
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Takeru Coste as “Mêre Simone” (Widow Simone), “La Fille Mal Gardée” (The Wayward Daughter), choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton after Jean Dauberval, costumes by Osbert Lancaster, music by Ferdinand Hérold, Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris, Paris, France (June 30, 2015).
Anzhela Prokhorova Анжела Прохорова and Sergei Volobuev Сергей Волобуев, “Up & Down”, choreography by Boris Eifman Борис Эйфман, music by George Gershwin, Franz Schubert, Alban Berg, costumes by Olga Shaishmelashvili Ольга Шайшмелашвили, Eifman Ballet Театр балетa Бориса Эйфман, The Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, California, USA (June 6, 2015).
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Anthony Huxley as “Oberon”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Felix Mendelssohn, costumes by Barbara Karinska, based on a comedy by William Shakespeare (1595/96), New York City Ballet, New York City, USA.
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Tina Pereira and Skylar Campbell, “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.
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Suzanne Farrell, “Mozartiana”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский (Suite No. 4, Mozartiana, Op. 61), costumes by Rouben Ter-Arutunian, New York City Ballet, New York City, USA.
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Yekaterina Krysanova Екатерина Крысанова as “Katharina” and Vladislav Lantratov Владислав Лантратов as “Petruchio”, “The Taming of the Shrew / Укрощение строптивой”, choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Dmitri Shostakovich Дмитрий Шостакович, costume design by Augustin Maillot, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Allison DeBona, “Almost Tango”, choreography by Nicolo Fonte, costume design David Heuvel after Nicolo Fonte and Mark Zappone, Ballet West, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва as “Giselle”, “Giselle”, (rehearsal), choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Théophile Gautier and Jean Coralli, set design by Igor Ivanov Игорь Иванов, costume design by Irina Press, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 