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.)
Natalia Somova Наталья Сомова and Ivan Mikhalev Иван Михалев, “The Nutcracker Щелкунчик”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, costume by Sandra Woodall, choreography by Yuri Possokhov Юрий Посохов, set design by Polina Bahtina Полина Бахтина. Based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко, Moscow, Russia (November 27).
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Dores André and Benjamin Freemantle, “The Fifth Season”, music by Karl Jenkins (String Quartet Nº 2 and Palladio. Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra: Largo), choreography by Helgi Tomasson, scenic and costume design by Sandra Woodall. As part of “Program 5” (“Harmony” by Helgi Tomasson-Jean-Philippe Rameau, “Magrittomania” by Yuri Possokhov Юрий Посохов-Yuri Krasavin-Ludwig van Beethoven and “The Fifth Season”), San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, California, US (April 2–16, 2022).
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Kristina Kretova Кристина Кретова (Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр), “Classical Symphony”, choreography by Yuri Possokhov Юрий Посохов, music by Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, (Symphony Nº 1), costume design by Sandra Woodall, Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, 2013 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Maria Kochetkova Мария Кочеткова and Hansuke Yamamoto, “Classical Symphony”, choreography by Yuri Possokhov Юрий Посохов, music by Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, (Symphony Nº 1), costume design by Sandra Woodall, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco, California, USA.
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Joanna Wozniak and Dylan Gutiérrez, “Incantations” choreography by Val Caniparoli, music by Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, scenic and costume design by Sandra Woodall, The Joffrey Ballet, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
World Première: The Joffrey Ballet, April 25, 2012; The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois.
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“Classical Symphony” choreography by Yuri Possokhov Юрий Посохов, music by Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, (Symphony Nº 1), costume design by Sandra Woodall, Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, 2013 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Kristina Kretova Кристина Кретова and Semyon Chudin Семен Чудин (Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр), “Classical Symphony” choreography by Yuri Possokhov Юрий Посохов, music by Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, (Symphony Nº 1), costume design by Sandra Woodall, Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, 2013 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Ballet: The Best Photographs 