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.)
Elena Lyskova Елена Лыскова and Maksim Izmestiev Максим Изместьев, “Chinese Dance” from “Nutcracker Щелкунчик”, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, design bySimon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Anastasiya Zinchenko Анастасия Зинченко, “Nutcracker Щелкунчик”, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, design bySimon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич and Mikhail Lobukhin Михаил Лобухин (dancers from Bolshoi Ballet) “Moszkowski Waltz”, music by Moritz Moszkowski, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Большой Концертный Зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16).
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич and Mikhail Lobukhin Михаил Лобухин (principal dancers from Bolshoi Ballet) “Moszkowski Waltz”, music by Moritz Moszkowski, choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Большой Концертный Зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16, 2012).
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич (Bolshoi Ballet), “Moszkowski Waltz”, music by Moritz Moszkowski, choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Большой Концертный Зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16).
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Elizaveta Kokoreva Елизавета Кокорева as “Jeanne”, “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков, Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев and Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич and Mikhail Lobukhin Михаил Лобухин (dancers from Bolshoi Ballet) “Moszkowski Waltz”, music by Moritz Moszkowski, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Большой Концертный Зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16).
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич and Mikhail Lobukhin Михаил Лобухин (dancers from Bolshoi Ballet) “Moszkowski Waltz”, music by Moritz Moszkowski, choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Большой Концертный Зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16).
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Elizaveta Kokoreva Елизавета Кокорева as “Jeanne”, “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков, Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев and Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич and Mikhail Lobukhin Михаил Лобухин (dancers from Bolshoi Ballet) “Moszkowski Waltz”, music by Moritz Moszkowski, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Большой Концертный Зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16).
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Olga Marchenkova Ольга Марченкова as “Mireille de Poitiers” (an actress), “The Flames of ParisПламя Парижа”, libretto by Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский and Aleksey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, on basis of the original libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков and Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев, music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreo by Aleksey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский (original choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен), costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (November 13, 2022).
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Elizaveta Kokoreva Елизавета Кокорева as “Jeanne”, “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков, Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев and Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич and Mikhail Lobukhin Михаил Лобухин (principal dancers from Bolshoi Ballet) “Moszkowski Waltz”, music by Moritz Moszkowski, choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Большой Концертный Зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16).
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Olga Marchenkova Ольга Марченкова as “Mireille de Poitiers” (an actress) and Artemy Belyakov Артемий Беляков as “Antoine Mistral” (an actor), “The Flames of ParisПламя Парижа”, libretto by Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский and Aleksey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, on basis of the original libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков and Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев, music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreo by Aleksey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский (original choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен), costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (November 13, 2022).
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Elizaveta Kokoreva Елизавета Кокорева as “Jeanne”, “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков, Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев and Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич and Mikhail Lobukhin Михаил Лобухин (dancers from Bolshoi Ballet) “Moszkowski Waltz”, music by Moritz Moszkowski, choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Большой Концертный Зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16).
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич and Mikhail Lobukhin Михаил Лобухин (dancers from Bolshoi Ballet) “Moszkowski Waltz”, music by Moritz Moszkowski, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Большой Концертный Зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16).
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич and Mikhail Lobukhin Михаил Лобухин (dancers from Bolshoi Ballet) “Moszkowski Waltz”, music by Moritz Moszkowski, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Большой Концертный Зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16).
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Anastasia Stashkevich Анастасия Сташкевич and Mikhail Lobukhin Михаил Лобухин (dancers from Bolshoi Ballet) “Moszkowski Waltz”, music by Moritz Moszkowski, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, 2012 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrskiy Concert Hall Большой Концертный Зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 16).
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 