Fouettes for a life.

Bolshoi Academy student Stanislava Postnova.

from her ig.

Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Svetlana Lunkina rehearsing and performing “Giselle”, with the help of Ekaterina Maximova. Bolshoi Theatre.

Sara Mearns in rehearsal for Swan Lake (x)

Backstage Life: The Wilis, ready to go.

Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev & members of the Bolshoi Ballet in Flames of Paris (part of the 2013 London tour). Photo: Andrej Uspenski.

“Oh shit”

-everyone in this picture

oMG

(can’t find the credit but it looks like Vaganova academy)

Is she Viktoria Brileva?!

It’s totally her

I never get it why people sew ribbons on their soft ballet shoes, whats the purpose

Svetlana Zakharova and David Hallberg in The Sleeping Beauty

I look at absolutely everything in this gif. The developpe, her pointe shoes. the way she brings down her leg to retire, her cambre, their smiles

and lastly, DAVID HALLBERG’S POINTE

Ekaterina Borchenko

Photo by Darian Volkova

Danila Korsuntsev and Uliana Lopatkina in Balachine’s Jewels

damn danila, dem legz 👌👌

their partnership is so strong

all-time favorite dancers:  1. Ludmila Semenyaka  (being coached by Galina Ulanova) 

La Bayadere

Photo by Ekaterina Lyzhina

Sarah Lamb and Natasha Oughtred backstage at ROH