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.)
Olesya Novikova Олеся Новикова and Julian MacKay, “Chopiniana Шопениана”, choreography and scenario by Mikhail Fokine revised by Agrippina Vaganova Агриппины Вагановой, music by Frédéric Chopin. As part of the project Vaslav Nijinsky 130º Anniversary, 2019 Dance.Dance.Dance., Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater Большой драматический театр имени Г. А. Товстоногова, Saint Petersburg, Russia (October 14, 2019).
Yekaterina Osmolkina Екатерина Осмолкина (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр) as “The Young Girl” [partnered with Artem Ovcharenko Артем Овчаренко (Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр) as “The Rose”], “Le Spectre de la Rose Видение Розы”, choreography by Mikhail Fokine (1911), music by Carl Maria von Weber (“Afforderung zum Tanz”), libretto by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer based on the poem “Le Spectre de la Rose” by Théophile Gautier, costume by Léon Bakst, 130th Anniversary of Vaslav Nijinsky, 2019 Dance.Dance.Dance., Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater Большой драматический театр имени Г. А. Товстоногова, Saint Petersburg, Russia (October 14, 2019).
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Yekaterina Osmolkina Екатерина Осмолкина (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр) as “The Young Girl” and Artem Ovcharenko Артем Овчаренко (Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр) as “The Rose”, “Le Spectre de la Rose”, choreography by Mikhail Fokine (1911), music by Carl Maria von Weber (“Afforderung zum Tanz”), libretto by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer based on the poem “Le Spectre de la Rose” by Théophile Gautier, costumes by Léon Bakst, 130th Anniversary of Vaslav Nijinsky, 2019 Dance.Dance.Dance., Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater Большой драматический театр имени Г. А. Товстоногова, Saint Petersburg, Russia (October 14, 2019).
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Oksana Skorik Оксана Скорик (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр), “The Dying Swan”, choreography by Mikhail Fokine, music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Gala Concert of Ballet Stars, 130th Anniversary of Vaslav Nijinsky, 2019 Dance.Dance.Dance., Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater Большой драматический театр имени Г. А. Товстоногова, Saint Petersburg, Russia (October 14, 2019).
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Oksana Skorik Оксана Скорик (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр), “The Dying Swan”, choreography by Mikhail Fokine, music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Gala Concert of Ballet Stars, 130th Anniversary of Vaslav Nijinsky, 2019 Dance.Dance.Dance., Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater Большой драматический театр имени Г. А. Товстоногова, Saint Petersburg, Russia (October 14, 2019).
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Yekaterina Osmolkina Екатерина Осмолкина (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр) as “The Young Girl” and Artem Ovcharenko Артем Овчаренко (Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр ) as “The Rose”, “Le Spectre de la Rose”, choreography by Mikhail Fokine (1911), music by Carl Maria von Weber (“Afforderung zum Tanz”), libretto by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer based on the poem “Le Spectre de la Rose” by Théophile Gautier, costumes by Léon Bakst, 130th Anniversary of Vaslav Nijinsky, 2019 Dance.Dance.Dance., Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater Большой драматический театр имени Г. А. Товстоногова, Saint Petersburg, Russia (October 14, 2019).
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Oksana Skorik Оксана Скорик (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр), “The Dying Swan”, choreography by Mikhail Fokine, music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Gala Concert of Ballet Stars, 130th Anniversary of Vaslav Nijinsky, 2019 Dance.Dance.Dance., Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater Большой драматический театр имени Г. А. Товстоногова, Saint Petersburg, Russia (October 14, 2019).
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 