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.)
Yekaterina Mamrenko Екатерина Мамренко, “Autodance”, choreo by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, music by Ori Lichtik, costume by Rebecca Hytting. As part of the program “To the Point (e)” [“Within The Golden Hour” by Christopher Wheeldon; “Vers un Pays Sage” (“Towards a Land of Wisdom”) by Jean Christophe Maillot and “Autodance”], Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Salle des Princes, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Yekaterina Osmolkina Екатерина Осмолкина, adagio from “The Talisman”, choreo by Marius Petipa revised version by Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, music by Riccardo Drigo, 2015 Gala Russe, les Etoiles des Ballets Russes, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Anna Tikhomirova Анна Тихомирова, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, choreo by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa and Aleksey Fadeyechev Алексей Фадеечев, 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, 2015 Gala Russe, les Etoiles des Ballets Russes, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco (September 12-13, 2015).
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Marianna Barabas, “Vers un Pays Sage” (“Towards a Land of Wisdom”), choreo by Jean Christophe Maillot, scenography by Jean Christophe Maillot and Dominique Drillot, costume by Jean Christophe Maillot and Jean Michel Lainé, music by John Adams (Fearful Symmetries). As part of the program (for April 24, 25, 26, 27 & 28, 2024) “To the Point (e)” (“Within The Golden Hour” by Christopher Wheeldon; “Autodance” by Sharon Eyal/Gai Behar and “Vers un Pays Sage”), Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Photographer Alain Hanel and Julien Pierre Fine Art
Anna Tikhomirova Анна Тихомирова, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, choreo by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa and Aleksey Fadeyechev Алексей Фадеечев, 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, 2015 Gala Russe, les Etoiles des Ballets Russes, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco (September 12-13, 2015).
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова and Mikhail Lobukhin Михаил Лобухин, “The Last Tango”, music by Astor Piazzolla, choreo by Vyacheslav Gordeev Вячеслав Гордеев, 2015 Gala Russe, les Etoiles des Ballets Russes, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco (September 12-13, 2015).
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Photographer Alain Hanel and Julien Pierre Fine Art
Anzhelina Vlashinets Ангелина Влашинец as one of the four “Ladies of the Court”, “Francesca da Rimini” based on epic poem “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri, choreo by Yury Possokhov Юрий Посохов, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, costume by Igor Chapurin Игорь Чапурин. As part of the program “Amore” (“Francesca da Rimini”, “The Rain Before it Falls” by Patrick de Bana and “Strokes Through The Tail” by Marguerite Donlon), Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (July 6, 2016).
Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова and Alexis Oliveira, “La Belle”, choreography by Jean Christophe Maillot, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, costume by Philippe Guillotel and Jérôme Kaplan, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова and Alexis Oliveira, “La Belle”, choreography by Jean Christophe Maillot, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, costume by Philippe Guillotel and Jérôme Kaplan, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова and Alexis Oliveira, “La Belle”, choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, costume by Philippe Guillotel and Jérôme Kaplan, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова and Alexis Oliveira, “La Belle”, choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, costume by Philippe Guillotel and Jérôme Kaplan, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова and Alexis Oliveira, “La Belle”, choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, costume by Philippe Guillotel and Jérôme Kaplan, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова and Alexis Oliveira, “La Belle”, choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, costume by Philippe Guillotel and Jérôme Kaplan, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Semyon Chudin Семен Чудин (principal dancer from Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр), “The Sleeping Beauty” (rehearsal), 2015 Gala Russe, les Etoiles des Ballets Russes, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Yekaterina Osmolkina Екатерина Осмолкина and Philipp Stepin Филипп Стёпин, adagio from “The Talisman”, choreo by Marius Petipa revised version by Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, music by Riccardo Drigo, 2015 Gala Russe, les Etoiles des Ballets Russes, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 