A helpful french twist video for those like me with very long hair (helpful tip given around 2:45)

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Nancy Osbaldeston in John Neumeier’s Bach Suite No. 2
© Foteini Christofilopoulou

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Alison McWhinney in Giselle
Photo by Foteini Christofilopoulou

Laurretta Summerscales

Photo by Foteini Christofilopoulou

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Alice and her sisters (Emma-Jane Maguire, Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Leanne Cope)
photo by: Dave Morgan

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Alice & Jack (Beatriz Stix-Brunell & Rupert Pennefather)

Photo by: Dave Morgan

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So yesterday I went to see Carolina Ballet and had tickets in the front row. After the show I was in the lobby and one of the male principles came up to me and said, “You shouldn’t sit in the front row again, it’s very distracting.” And walked away.

My face turned red and I wanted to hide under a rock.

balletshoesandbobbypins:

Even if all of #life doesn’t make sense… You always have #ballet.

Former director of English National Ballet asked principal dancer Daria Klimentova to consider aborting unborn baby so he could cast her as Sleeping Beauty

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ilovemarianela:

Marianela Nunez - “La Nuit Des Etoiles”. photo by Gerard Uferas

balletomaneassoluta:

Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle

fatass-mcnotits:

so ballerinas are the most metal mother fuckers out there

because not only do they have to go through rigorous training and strain to perfect their craft, while simultaneously destroying their joints and self esteem

but they gotta look like fucking fairies and princesses and graceful swans while they fucking do it and not look like they’re in fucking pain and pushing their bodies to their limits

ballerinas are metal as shit yo

Post of the year award.