Ballet Beautiful

Irma Nioradze in The Dying Swan.

Photo (c) Stas Levshin.

Lauren Cuthbertson and Edward Watson in Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet.

Photo (c) Dee Conway/Royal Opera House.

Artem Shpilevsky as Crassus.

Diana Vishneva and Marcelo Gomes 

in Lady of the Camellias

Photo by Gene Schiavone

Vilia Putrius in Swan Lake.Photo (c) Gene Schiavone.

Anastasia Matvienko in Giselle with the Mikhailovsky Ballet.

Photo (c) Gene Schiavone.

Sarah Lamb in The Dying Swan.

Photo (c) Tim Cross.

Maria Kochetkova and Joan Boada, photo (c) Erik Tomasson.

Maxim Beloserkovsky and Irina Dvorovenko in Giselle.

Photo (c) Lois Greenfield.

Svetlana Zakharova in Nacho Duato’s The Sleeping Beauty with the Mikhailovsky Ballet.

Photo (c) Nikolay Krusser.

Alina Somova in Giselle.

Photo (c) Gene Schiavone.

Yulia Tikka in La Sylphide.

Photo (c) Nikolay Krusser.

Alina Somova

Elena Evseeva in Yuri Smekalov’s Parting.

Photo (c) Stas Levshin.

Ludmila Konovalova.

Photo (c) Enrico Nawrath.

Leonid Sarafanov in Nacho Duato’s The Sleeping Beauty.

Photo (c) Nikolay Krusser.

Polina Semionova in The Sleeping Beauty.

Photo (c) Enrico Nawrath.

Olga Esina in Suite en Blanc.

Photo: DIETER NAGL/AFP/Getty Images.

Diana Vishneva in Giselle.

Photo (c) Gene Schiavone/American Ballet Theatre.

Cédric Ygnace and Jurgita Dronina in the pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet.

Photo by Stas Levshin.

Viktor Baranov and Diana Vishneva in The Sleeping Beauty.

Photo (c) Natasha Razina.

Natalia Osipova in Laurencia.

Photo by Stas Levshin.

Riolama Lorenzo and Sergio Torrado rehearsing Petit’s Carmen.

Photo (c) Alexander Iziliaev.

Gaylene Cummerfield and Robert Parker in Powder.

Photo (c) Bill Cooper/Birmingham Royal Ballet.