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.)
Maria Khoreva Мария Хорева, “Concerto DSCH”, choreography by Alexey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Dmitri Shostakovich Дмитрий Шостакович (Concerto Nº 2 in F Major, Op. 102), costume by Holly Hynes. As part of the program for January 27 “Commemorating the Lifting of the Siege of Leningrad” (“The Young Lady and the Hooligan” by Konstantin Boyarsky Константин Боярский, “Leningrad Symphony” by Igor Belsky Игорь Бельский and “Concerto DSCH”), Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (Mariinsky II).
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Maria Khoreva Мария Хорева and Konstantin Zverev Константин Зверев, “Concerto DSCH”, choreography by Alexey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Dmitri Shostakovich Дмитрий Шостакович (Concerto Nº 2 in F Major, Op. 102), costume by Holly Hynes. As part of the program for January 27 “Commemorating the Lifting of the Siege of Leningrad” (“The Young Lady and the Hooligan” by Konstantin Boyarsky Константин Боярский, “Leningrad Symphony” by Igor Belsky Игорь Бельский and “Concerto DSCH”), Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (Mariinsky II).
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“Giselle Жизель”, choreography by Alexey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Zenaida Yanowsky and Rupert Pennefather, “24 Preludes”, music by Frédéric Chopin (24 Preludes), choreo by Alexey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, The Royal Ballet, London, England.
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Prisca Zeisel, “Pictures at an Exhibition”, choreography by Alexey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Modest Mussorgsky Модест Мусоргский, costume design by Adeline André, Bayerisches Staatsballett Bavarian State Ballet, Nationaltheater, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Maria Khoreva Мария Хорева, “Concerto DSCH” (rehearsal), choreo by Alexey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Dmitri Shostakovich Дмитрий Шостакович (Concerto Nº 2 in F Major, Op. 102), costume by Holly Hynes. As part of the program for January 27 “Commemorating the Lifting of the Siege of Leningrad” (“The Young Lady and the Hooligan” by Konstantin Boyarsky Константин Боярский, “Leningrad Symphony” by Igor Belsky Игорь Бельский and “Concerto DSCH”), Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (Mariinsky II).
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Natalia Osipova Наталья Осипова (ABT’s guest artist for 2009 Spring Season) as “The Firebird” (created role), “Firebird”, choreo by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Igor Stravinsky Игорь Стравинский (“Le Oiseau de Feu”), scenery by Simon Pastukh, costume by Galina Solovyova Галина Соловьева, American Ballet Theatre, Metropolitan Opera, New York City, USA.
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Fiona McGee, “24 Preludes”, music by Frédéric Chopin (“24 Preludes”), choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, costume by Keso Dekker, WienerStaatsballett Vienna State Ballet, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria.
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова as “Giselle” and Artemy Belyakov Артемий Беляков as “Count Albrecht”, “Giselle”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (2019).
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Prisca Zeisel, “Pictures at an Exhibition”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Modest Mussorgsky Модест Мусоргский, costume design by Adeline André. As part of the program “Passages” (“Affairs of the Heart” by David Dawson and Marjan Mozetich, “Sweet Bones’ Melody” by Marco Goecke and Unsuk Chin and “Pictures at an Exhibition”), Bayerisches Staatsballett Bavarian State Ballet, Nationaltheater, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Prisca Zeisel, “Pictures at an Exhibition”, choreography by Alexey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Modest Mussorgsky Модест Мусоргский, costume design by Adeline André. As part of the program “Passages” (“Affairs of the Heart” by David Dawson and Marjan Mozetich, “Sweet Bones’ Melody” by Marco Goecke and Unsuk Chin and “Pictures at an Exhibition”), Bayerisches Staatsballett Bavarian State Ballet, Nationaltheater, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Yekaterina Krysanova Екатерина Крысанова as “Giselle”, “Giselle Жизель”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова as “Giselle”, “Giselle”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Evgenia Obraztsova Евгения Образцова (back then at the Mariinsky Ballet) as “Cinderella” and Igor Kolb Игорь Колб as “Prince William”, “Cinderella Золушка” music by Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков based on the fairytale of the same name by Charles Perraul, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский (2002), costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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with Maia Makhateli – Photographer Sasha Gouliaev Саша Гуляев
Photographer Sasha Gouliaev Саша Гуляев
with Maia Makhateli – Photographer Sasha Gouliaev Саша Гуляев
Photographer Sasha Gouliaev Саша Гуляев
Photographer Sasha Gouliaev Саша Гуляев
Photographer Sasha Gouliaev Саша Гуляев
Photographer Sasha Gouliaev Саша Гуляев
Photographer Sasha Gouliaev Саша Гуляев
Photographer Altin Kaftira
Anatole Babenko Анатолий Бабенко as “Gamache” (betrothed to marry Kitri), “Don Quixote Don Quichotte“, choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky and Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Ludwig Minkus, set and costume design by Jérôme Kaplan, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Photographer Stanislav Belyaevsky Станислав Беляевский
“Firebirds”, “The Little Humpbacked Horse Konyok-Gorbunok” (reheasal), music by Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский (2009), libretto, set and costume by Maxim Isaev Максим Исаев based on the fairy tale of the same name by Pyotr Yershov Петр Ершов, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Natalia Osipova Наталья Осипова and Yekaterina Krysanova Екатерина Крысанова, “Le Corsaire”, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier edited by Marius Petipa, based on the poem “The Corsair” (1814) by Lord George Byron, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, Yuri Burlaka Юрий Бурлака and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, costume design by Elena Zaitseva Елена Зайцева, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (September 24, 2008).
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