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.)
Nadezhda Batoeva Надежда Батоева and Philipp Stepin Филипп Стёпин (principal dancer and first soloist, respectively, at the Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр), “Grand Pas Classique”, choreo by Victor Gsovsky Виктор Гсовский, music by Daniel Auber, 2024 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 19, 2024).
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Anna Skvortsova Анна Скворцова and Stepan Demin Степан Демин, “The Kiss Поцелуй”, choreo by Leonid Yakobson Леонид Якобсон, music by Claude Debussy, costume design by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Tatyana Noginova Татьяна Ногинова, Anna Yakushchenko Анна Якущенко. As part of “Rodin Роден” (“Eternal Spring”, “The Kiss”, “Eternal Idol”, “Despair”, “Minotaur and Nymph”, “Paolo and Francesca” and “Ecstasy”), Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April, 2022).
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Anna Skvortsova Анна Скворцова and Stepan Demin Степан Демин, “The Kiss Поцелуй”, choreo by Leonid Yakobson Леонид Якобсон, music by Claude Debussy, costume design by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Tatyana Noginova Татьяна Ногинова, Anna Yakushchenko Анна Якущенко. As part of “Rodin Роден” (“Eternal Spring”, “The Kiss”, “Eternal Idol”, “Despair”, “Minotaur and Nymph”, “Paolo and Francesca” and “Ecstasy”), Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April, 2022).
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Anna Skvortsova Анна Скворцова and Stepan Demin Степан Демин, “The Kiss Поцелуй”, choreo by Leonid Yakobson Леонид Якобсон, music by Claude Debussy, costume design by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Tatyana Noginova Татьяна Ногинова, Anna Yakushchenko Анна Якущенко. As part of “Rodin Роден” (“Eternal Spring”, “The Kiss”, “Eternal Idol”, “Despair”, “Minotaur and Nymph”, “Paolo and Francesca” and “Ecstasy”), Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April, 2022).
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Alice Firenze as “Judith” and Kirill Kourlaev Кирилл Курлаев as “Blaubart”, “The Mystery of the Bluebeard Blaubarts Geheimnis”, choreo by Stephan Thoss, music by Philip Glass. As part of the program from “Blaubarts Geheimnis Tour Premiere” (“Blaubarts Geheimnis”, “Le Souffle de L’esprit” by Jiří Bubeníček and “Skew-Whiff” by Paul Lightfoot/Sol León), Das Wiener Staatsballett Vienna State Ballet, 2016 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16, 2016).
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Anna Skvortsova Анна Скворцова and Stepan Demin Степан Демин, “The Kiss Поцелуй”, choreo by Leonid Yakobson Леонид Якобсон, music by Claude Debussy, costume design by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Tatyana Noginova Татьяна Ногинова, Anna Yakushchenko Анна Якущенко. As part of “Rodin Роден” (“Eternal Spring”, “The Kiss”, “Eternal Idol”, “Despair”, “Minotaur and Nymph”, “Paolo and Francesca” and “Ecstasy”), Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April, 2022).
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Maria Abashova Мария Абашова as “Ballerina” and Igor Subbotin Игорь Субботин as “The Commissar”, “Red Giselle Красная Жизель”, choreo by Boris Eifman Бориса Эйфман, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, Alfred Schnittke and Georges Bizet, set and costume by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Eifman Ballet Театр балета Бориса Эйфмана, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (2015).
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Nadezhda Batoeva Надежда Батоева and Philipp Stepin Филипп Стёпин (principal dancer and first soloist, respectively, at the Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр), “Grand Pas Classique”, choreo by Victor Gsovsky Виктор Гсовский, music by Daniel Auber, 2024 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 19, 2024).
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Alice Firenze as “Judith” and Kirill Kourlaev Кирилл Курлаев as “Blaubart”, “The Mystery of the Bluebeard Blaubarts Geheimnis”, choreo by Stephan Thoss, music by Philip Glass. As part of the program from “Blaubarts Geheimnis Tour Premiere” (“Blaubarts Geheimnis”, “Le Souffle de L’esprit” by Jiří Bubeníček and “Skew-Whiff” by Paul Lightfoot/Sol León), Das Wiener Staatsballett Vienna State Ballet, 2016 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16, 2016).
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Anna Tsygankova Анна Цыганкова and Jozef Varga, “Duet”, choreo by Christopher Wheeldon, music by Maurice Ravel (Piano Concerto in G major), 2015 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 21, 2015).
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Megan Zimny Kaftira and Remi Wörtmeyer, “Corps”, choreo by Hans van Manen, music by Alban Berg (Concert for violin Dem Andenken eines Engels), costume by Keso Dekker, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, 2014 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 27, 2014).
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“Grand Pas de Deux Electrique” from the final act of “Bluebeard Синяя борода”, music by Peter Schenk, choreo by Vasily Medvedev Василий Медведев after Marius Petipa, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова, costume by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской, Corps de Ballet Leonid Yacobson Ballet, 2014 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 28, 2014).
“Grand Pas de Deux Electrique” from the final act of “Bluebeard Синяя борода” (rehearsal), music by Peter Schenk, choreo by Vasily Medvedev Василий Медведев after Marius Petipa, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова, costume by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской, Corps de Ballet Leonid Yacobson Ballet, 2014 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 28, 2014).
Anna Ol Анна Оль (Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet) as “Esmeralda”, “La Esmeralda”, based on the novel “Notre-Dame de Paris” by Victor Hugo, choreo by Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Cesare Pugni, sets by William Grieve, 2018 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 17, 2018).
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Anna Ol Анна Оль (Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet) as “Esmeralda”, “La Esmeralda”, based on the novel “Notre-Dame de Paris” by Victor Hugo, choreo by Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Cesare Pugni, sets by William Grieve, 2018 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 17, 2018).
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Sarah Lamb as “Masha Prozorova Маша Прозорова” and Vadim Muntagirov Вадим Мунтагиров as Lieutenant Colonel AleksandrVershinin Подполковник Александр Вершинин, “Farewell Pas de Deux” from “Winter Dreams”, libretto and choreo 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, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 27, 2015).
Note I: Sarah Lamb and Vadim Muntagirov Вадим Мунтагиров are principal dancers from The Royal Ballet, London, England.
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Daria Reznik Дарья Резник dressed to play the role of “Ballerina”, “Red Giselle Красная Жизель”, choreo by Boris Eifman Борис Эйфман, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, Alfred Schnittke and Georges Bizet, set and costume by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Eifman Ballet Театр балета Борис Эйфман, Aleksandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Svetlana Bednenko Светлана Бедненко as “Ballerina” and Aleksey Turko Алексей Турко as “Commissar”, “Red Giselle Красная Жизель”, choreo 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, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 