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.)
Oksana Skorik Оксана Скорик as “Nikiya Никия”, “La Bayadère Баядерка” choreo by Marius Petipa (1877) revised choreo by Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941), Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Polina Semionova Полина Семионова as “Nikiya Никия”, “La Bayadère Баядеркa”, libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergey Khudekov Сергея Худеков, choreo by Marius Petipa (1877), Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941), Konstantin Sergeyev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, Mikhailovsky Theatre Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (March 2014).
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Polina Semionova Полина Семионова as “Nikiya Никия”, “La Bayadère Баядеркa” (rehearsal), libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergey Khudekov Сергея Худеков, choreo by Marius Petipa (1877), Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941), Konstantin Sergeyev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, Mikhailovsky Theatre Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (March, 2014).
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Polina Semionova Полина Семионова as “Nikiya Никия”, “La Bayadère Баядеркa”, libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergey Khudekov Сергея Худеков, choreo by Marius Petipa (1877), Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941), Konstantin Sergeyev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, Mikhailovsky Theatre Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (March 2014).
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Olesya Novikova Олеся Новикова as “Nikiya Никия”, “La Bayadère Баядеркa”, choreo by Marius Petipa (1877), revised choreography by Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941), Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Polina Semionova Полина Семионова as “Nikiya Никия”, “La Bayadère Баядеркa”, libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergey Khudekov Сергея Худеков, choreography by Marius Petipa (1877), revised choreography by Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941), Konstantin Sergeyev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, Mikhailovsky Theatre Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Polina Semionova Полина Семионова as “Nikiya Никия”, “La Bayadère Баядеркa”, libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergey Khudekov Сергея Худеков, choreography by Marius Petipa (1877), revised choreography by Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941), Konstantin Sergeyev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, Mikhailovsky Theatre Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Anastasia Limenko Анастасия Лименько as “Gamzatti” and Ksenia Shevtsova Ксения Шевцова as “Nikiya Никия”, “La Bayadère Баядерка”, choreography by Natalia Makarova Наталья Макарова, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume design by Yolanda Sonnabend, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia.
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Eva Sergeenkova Ева Сергеенкова as “Nikiya Никия”, “La Bayadère Баядерка”, libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergey Khudekov Сергея Худеков, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Marius Petipa, new scenic version by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, scenes from productions by Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани, Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, Konstantin Sergeev Константина Сергеев, supervisor of scenery and costume creation by Valery Levental Валерий Левенталь, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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