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.)
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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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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Elisabeth Tonev and Davi Ramos, “Replay”, choreography by Ted Brandsen, music by Philip Glass (excerpt from the film “The Hours”), Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Sarah-Jane Brodbeck, “Ein Sommernachtstraum A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, choreography by Heinz Spoerli, music Philip Glass (Violin Concerto Nº 1 2º Movement). Based on a comedy of the same name by William Shakespeare (1595/96). As part of the program “From Berlin with Love I” Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet Season Opening Gala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany (August 26, 2020).
Sarah-Jane Brodbeck and Vahe Martirosyan, “Ein Sommernachtstraum A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, choreography by Heinz Spoerli, music Philip Glass (Violin Concerto Nº 1, 2nd Movement) from program “From Berlin with Love I”, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet Season Opening Gala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany (August 26, 2020).
Igone de Jongh and Vito Mazzeo (dancers from Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet), “Replay”, choreography by Ted Brandsen, music by Philip Glass (excerpt from the film “The Hours”), 2015 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Alexandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 21).
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Maria Vinogradova Мария Виноградова as “Orlando” and Artemy Belyakov Артемий Беляков as “Shelmerdine”, “Orlando Орландо”, music by Edward Elgar, Philip Glass, Lera Auerbach and Eleha Kats-Chernin, libretto byClaus Spahn based on the novel of the same name by Virginia Wolf, choreography by Christian Spuck, costume design by Emma Ryott, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр (New Stage) Moscow, Russia.
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Eleonora Sevenard as “Orlando”, “Orlando Орландо”, music by Edward Elgar, Philip Glass, Lera Auerbach and Eleha Kats-Chernin, libretto byClaus Spahn based on the novel of the same name by Virginia Wolf, choreography by Christian Spuck, costume design by Emma Ryott, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр (New Stage) Moscow, Russia (June 20, 2021).
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Maria Vinogradova Мария Виноградова and Artemy Belyakov Артемий Беляков (duet in black), Postscript” (rehearsal), choreography and costume desig by Sol León and Paul Lightfoot, music by Philip Glass. As part of the program “Postscript 2.0, An Evening of Modern Choreography”, (“Initium” by Aleхander Scryabin Александр Скрябин and Konstantin Keykhel Константин Кейхель; “Faun” by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Claude Debussy-Nitin Sawhney; “Sonata-Fantasy” by Aleхander Scryabin Александр Скрябин and Yuri Possokhov Юрий Посохов and “Postscript”), Bolshoi Theatre Большой театр (new stage), Moscow, Russia. (June 21 & 22, 2022).
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Julie Kent and Marcelo Gomes, “C. to C.” (Close to Chuck), choreography by Jorma Elo, music by Philip Glass (a musical portrait of Chuck Close and Études Nº2, Nº 9 and Nº 10), scenery design by Chuck Close, costume design by Ralph Rucci, special guest artist Bruce Levingston (Pianist), American Ballet Theatre, New York City, US.
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 