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.)
Elizaveta Kulikova Елизавета Куликова as “Bathilde” (Duke of Courland’s daughter), “Giselle Жызэль”, choreo 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 Ирины Пресс, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Elizaveta Kulikova Елизавета Куликова as “Bathilde” (Duke of Courland’s daughter), “Giselle Жызэль”, choreo 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 Ирины Пресс, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Tatsiana Ulasen Таццяна Уласень as “Bathilde”, “Giselle Жызэль”, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Théophile Gautier, Jean Coralli, choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, Igor Kolb Игорь Колб (Peasant pas de deux from Act I), stage by Igor Kolb Игорь Колб, set and costume design by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus Большой театр Беларуси, Opierny Teatr Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk, Republic of Belarus (September 27).
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Tatsiana Ulasen Таццяна Уласень as “Bathilde”, “Giselle Жызэль”, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Théophile Gautier, Jean Coralli, choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, Igor Kolb Игорь Колб (Peasant pas de deux from Act I), stage by Igor Kolb Игорь Колб, set and costume design by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus Большой театр Беларуси, Opierny Teatr Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk, Republic of Belarus (September 27).
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Anastasia Soboleva Анастасия Соболева as “Ballerina”, Sergei Volobuev Сергей Волобуев as “Commissar”, Pavel Moskvito Павел Моcквито as “the Teacher”, Dmitry Krylov Дмитрий Крылов as “the Partner”, Leonid Leontyev Леонид Леонтьев as “the Friend” and Polina Gorbunova Полина Горбунова as Bathilde, “Red Giselle Красная Жизель choreography by Boris Eifman Бориса Эйфман, Eifman Ballet Театр балета Бориса Эйфмана, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia (June 30, 2016)
Oksana Skorik Оксана Скорик as “Giselle”, Yevgeny Ivanchenko Евгений Иванченко as “Albrecht”, Ivan Oskorbin Иван Оскорбин as “Hans”, Tatiana Tkachenko Татьяна Ткаченко as “Myrtha,” Tatiana Tiliguzova Татьяна Тилигузова as “Monna”, Ksenia Ostreikovskaya Ксения Острейковская as “Zelma”, Elena Yevseyeva Елена Евсеева and Aleksey Timofeyev Алексей Тимофеев (peasant pdd), Lira Khuslamova Лира Хусламова as “Berthe”, Yekaterina Mikhailovstseva as “Bathilde” and Vladimir Ponomerev Владимир Пономарёв as “The Duke”, “Giselle” choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, Mariinsky Ballet, Saint Petersburg, Russia (October 6, 2015)
Ballet: The Best Photographs 