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.)
Darya Ustyuzhanina Дарья Устюжанина as “Odalisque”, “Le Corsaire Корсар” choreo by Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa and Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges and Joseph Mazilier, edited by Yury Slonimsky Юрий Слонимский and Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pyotr Oldenburg Петр Ольденбургский, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Darya Ustyuzhanina Дарья Устюжанина as “Odalisque”, “Le Corsaire Корсар” choreo by Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa and Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges and Joseph Mazilier, edited by Yury Slonimsky Юрий Слонимский and Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pyotr Oldenburg Петр Ольденбургский, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Darya Ustyuzhanina Дарья Устюжанина as “Odalisque”, “Le Corsaire Корсар” choreo by Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa and Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges and Joseph Mazilier, edited by Yury Slonimsky Юрий Слонимский and Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pyotr Oldenburg Петр Ольденбургский, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Darya Ustyuzhanina Дарья Устюжанина as “Odalisque”, “Le Corsaire Корсар” choreo by Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa and Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges and Joseph Mazilier, edited by Yury Slonimsky Юрий Слонимский and Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pyotr Oldenburg Петр Ольденбургский, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Darya Ustyuzhanina Дарья Устюжанина as “The Huang He” (The Yellow River), “Underwater Kingdom Variation” (or Grand Pas des Fleuves, Ruisseaux et Sources), “La Fille du Pharaon Дочь фараона”, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges based on the historical novel “Le Roman de la Momie” by Théophile Gautier, choreo by Marius Petipa and Toni Candeloro, music by Cesare Pugni, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Darya Ustyuzhanina Дарья Устюжанина as “The Huang He” (The Yellow River), “Underwater Kingdom Variation” (or Grand Pas des Fleuves, Ruisseaux et Sources), “La Fille du Pharaon Дочь фараона”, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges based on the historical novel “Le Roman de la Momie” by Théophile Gautier, choreo by Marius Petipa and Toni Candeloro, music by Cesare Pugni, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Darya Ustyuzhanina Дарья Устюжанина as “Amour”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, choreography by Alexander Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa, Nina Anisimova Нина Анисимова (gypsy and oriental dances) and Fyodor Lopukhov Фёдор Лопухов (Fandango), 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), music by Ludwig Minkus, costume design by Konstantin Korovin Константин Коровин, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (June 5).
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Darya Ustyuzhanina Дарья Устюжанина as “White Pussycat” (also know as “The White Cat” or “White Kitty”), “The Sleeping Beauty Спящая красавица“, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской and Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, choreography by Marius Petipa revised version by Konstantin Sergeev Константина Сергеев (1952), set and costume design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Darya Ustyuzhanina Дарья Устюжанина, backstage Vaganova Ballet Academy АРБ им. А.Я. Вагановой Graduation Performance, The State Kremlin Palace Государственный Кремлевский Дворец, Moscow, Russia.
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Darya Ustyuzhanina Дарья Устюжанина, “La Bayadère” (act II, Variation Red Tutu Girls), choreography by Marius Petipa (1877), revised choreography by Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв and Vakhtang Chabukiani, Konstantin Sergeyev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, music by Ludwig Minkus, costumes by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergei Khudekov Сергея Худеков, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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