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I LOVE THIS ENTIRE THING I LOVE WHEN BALLETS PLAY AROUND WITH UNIQUE STORYTELLING RESOURCES YOU'D NEVER HAVE AVAILABLE IN ANY OTHER MEDIA

I LOVE UNHINGED BALLET

I LOVE THE CREATIVENESS PUT IN PLACE HERE

The Australian Ballet is doing Alice in Wonderland again and on one hand I’ve seen it before, and on the other, their Queen of Hearts has my favourite costume in anything every

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Tamara Rojo and Roberto Bolle in Romeo and Juliet, 1998. Photographed by Alastair Muir.

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Le Corsaire, second act, Ali's variation

Joshua Ballinger | The Australian Ballet School | Photo by Belinda Strodder

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Second picture is a recreation of Edgar Degas' "Little 14 Year Old Dancer" sculpture

Madison Brown for Selkie

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Photoshoot, Bronze idol from La Bayadére

Keyber Mendoza | Ballet Allegro

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La Bayadere, second act, Nikiya's death (oops spoilers)

Tatyana Toporkova as Nikiya, "La Bayadère", music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Yury Klevtsov, sets and costumes design by Dmitry Cherbadzhi, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.

Photographer Aleksandr Potapov

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Paquita, 1st Act, Pas de deux

Léonore Baulac | Marc Moreau | Paris Opera ballet | Photo by Maria-Helena Buckley

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Daniel Pratt in The Spider’s Feast. Photo by Frank Atura, courtesy The Sarasota Ballet.

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La Bayadere, second act, Gamzatti variation

Sylvie Guillem

Photographer Jesús Vallinas

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The Mistake Waltz from Jerome Robbins's The Concert, or The Perils of Everybody

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Alisa Khayrnasova as Rusina, "Dance of the Palestinian Slaves" from "Le Corsaire" choreography by Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa and Pyotr Gusev, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges and Joseph Mazilier, edited by Yury Slonimsky and Pyotr Gusev based on a long tale in verse "The Corsair" (1814) by Lord George Byron, music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pyotr Oldenburg, Mariinsky Ballet, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Photographer Aleksandr Neff

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IT WAS COPPELIA'S 1ST ACT SWANILDA VARIATION

Something's driving me insane, yesterday I heard the music of a variation and my dad (a classical musician) wanted to know where it was from and I could tell him everything about the music, that it was ballet, that it was a feminine solo, that it went with a short tutu, I could even tell him what the choreography looked like, but NOT where it was from and now I've been looking for it for a whole day and I can't find the little bitch

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If anyone's interested i have it in a google drive file because it took me forever to find it and I want others to watch it, it's a wonderful and terrifying interpretation I love it so much!

I didn't think I would be learning 24 years after it's release that the end of Billy Elliot is a sort of homage to a queer version of Swan Lake. Adam Cooper's little cameo always makes me cry along with Jackie's little gasp, but now it's even more beautiful

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La Bayadere, Act 2, kingdom of the shades

Gotta love seeing a selfish man getting the divine punishment of being tortured into madness by the unending visage of the woman he killed after swearing eternal love to her before the gods. Suffer boy!

Marcos Silva | Cia Paulista De Dança | Photos by Nayara Spina Candido

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Romeo and Juliet, act 1

Timofej Andrijashenko | The Royal Ballet | Photo by Andre Uspenski | @dancersdiary

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Nicole Teague-Howell and Garrett Glassman as Mina Harker and Renfield in the Milwaukee Ballet's production of Michael Pink's Dracula