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Something else I mentioned just before Christmas. Dance of Manu, from the ballet La Bayadere, where she has to balance an urn on her head...

Irina Kolpakova dancing Aurora's Variation from act 3 of Sleeping Beauty. Kolpakova was the last student of the legendary teacher,...

Variation of Lise from Gorsky version of La Fille Mal Gardee by Anastasia Stashkevich of the Bolshoi Ballet.

The incomparable Ekaterina Maximova dancing Kirti's variation from act 3 of Don Quixote. https://youtu.be/4GKIdhBSCjQ

Here is a video of Ludmilla Semenyaka dancing Black Swan variation, choreography by Yuri Grigorovich, in 1982 in a tribute gala for Asaf...

Although it is somewhat at a smaller scale than usual, we are finally back on stage on 3rd and 4th June! Come cheer us on! Get your...

Congratulations to Francois Alu for being nominated etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet! https://www.instagram.com/tv/CGnjwG5I8hv/?igshid=Ym...

Here is the variation I mentioned last week in a class. Beautiful Viktoria Teteshkina dancing Raymonda's variation from act 2....

Just because it's breathtakingly beautiful. John Cranko's muse Marcia Haydee and Richard Cragun dancing the balcony pas de deux from...

Very cleverly done and funny. https://youtu.be/oiMOinQU5AY

This is the piece I talked about in one of the classes on Saturday. It is Mistake Waltz from The Concert by Jerome Robbins....

This is what we talked about in a class last week, but also in so many other classes in the past. Just watch how beautifully she lifts...

A fantastic documentary about the Bolshoi Balletin the 80s with some incredible stories and footage of the older generations as well. The...

This is the video of Maya Plisetskaya that I grew up watching and remains forever my aim. I spent countless hours trying to copy her arms...

The kind of balance I was talking about in class on Monday. Incredible balance by Nina Ananiashvilli, a Georgian ballerina who danced at...

Stunning example of courus in parallel that we worked on in our last pointe work class. Esmeralda's variation by Uliana Lopatkina of...

This is the video I was talking about in today's (Thursday) class. Such magnificent jumps with precision, beautiful performance and the...

This is what we talked about in our Thursday class this week. Beautiful foot work by Nina Kaptsova, principal dancer of the Bolshoi...

We talked about white ballets in a class this week and why they are so incredibly beautiful but beastly difficult. Here is the first...

A beautiful example of what we worked on today, with Rose Gad and Alexander Kølpin of the Royal Danish Ballet. https://youtu.be/nej5gzi7uWw