Ballet Beautiful

Le Corsaire, Natalia Osipova, center, with members of American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House on Tuesday.

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The artists of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba danced excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Delibes’ Coppélia, and Minkus’ Don Quixote (choreographed by the legendary Silver Age master Maestro Marius Petipa) with virtuosity and stunning spirit.

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Gillian Murphy and Roman Zhurbin in Le Corsaire. 

Photo:Gene Schiavone.

Part of the final tableau in “Chamber Symphony,” the second part of Ratmansky’s trilogy. 

Photo by Gene Schiavone.

Ballet Nacional de Cuba at gala concert in Moscow.

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Ivan Vasiliev in the Le Corsaire pas de deux.

© Marty Sohl.

Natalia Osipova

by Gene-Schiavone

Alejandro Virelles’ bravura performance of the famous scène de ballet The Dying Swan at the gala for Sra Alonso.

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dance. passion.

Roberto Bolle and Isadora Loyola in Romeo and Juliet.

Photo (c) Fabrizio Ferri/American Ballet Theatre.

Anastasia Volochkova in Giselle.

Photo (c) Natasha Razina.

Shelby Elsbree in The Lesson. Photo (c) Costin Radu

Temur Suluashvili and Victoria Jaiani in Stravinsky Violin Concerto.

Photo (c) Cheryl Mann.

L’Après-midi d’un Faune - Nijinsky 1912

by Adolf de Meyer

Uliana Lopatkina in Swan Lake (with the Paris Opera Ballet).

Photo by Anne Deniau.

Anne Souder. Photo by Richard Calmes.Polina Semionova photographed by Peter Lindbergh, published in Vogue Germany (2010)

Misty Copeland as Gamzatti, by Gene Shiavone

Ekaterina Borchenko in Swan Lake. Photo (c) Stas Levshin.

Viktor Baranov and Diana Vishneva in The Sleeping Beauty.

Photo (c) Natasha Razina.

Photographer — Mark Olich;  Ballerinas — corps de ballet of the Mariinsky Theater; Ballet “Giselle”.

Anastasia Matvienko in Don Quixote. Photo (c) Stas Levshin

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