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It's amazing what goes into making something effortless.

"No performance is a perfect performance but some performances allow for the feeling of perfection. Achieving this moment of ecstasy easily validates all the pain and struggle of the art form by taking us, and possibly our audience, for a moment to a world beyond our own."

Willis wait backstage for their entrance in Carolina Ballet’s Giselle
Photos by Tim Lytvinenko

(Source: theballetblog)


1934 Premiere at La Scala, MilanPhoto by Alfred Eisenstaedt

1934 Premiere at La Scala, Milan
Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt


Photo by Henry Leutwyler

Photo by Henry Leutwyler


Photo by Henry Leutwyler

Photo by Henry Leutwyler


Stephanie Williams on the stage of the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, 2008. Photo Lisa Tomasetti

Stephanie Williams on the stage of the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, 2008. Photo Lisa Tomasetti


New York City BalletPhoto by: Henry Leutwyler

New York City Ballet
Photo by: Henry Leutwyler


Vogue Australia, The Australian BalletPhoto by Will Davidson

Vogue Australia, The Australian Ballet
Photo by Will Davidson

(Source: theballetblog)


Photo by: Greg Barrett Model/Dancer: Adrian Burnett, 1998

Photo by: Greg Barrett
Model/Dancer: Adrian Burnett, 1998


Several people escape the falling dust and debris after the first World Trade Center Tower fell on Sept. 11, 2001. Pansy Dones consoles an unidentified woman who kept crying, “Oh my God, we’re alive! Oh my God, we’re alive!”

Several people escape the falling dust and debris after the first World Trade Center Tower fell on Sept. 11, 2001. Pansy Dones consoles an unidentified woman who kept crying, “Oh my God, we’re alive! Oh my God, we’re alive!”



May 23rd at 9PM / tagged: ballet. dance. photography. bw. / 349 notes

Diana Vishneva in the ballet The Legend of LovePhoto by: Mark Olich

Diana Vishneva in the ballet The Legend of Love
Photo by: Mark Olich



From the “Backstage” seriesPhoto by: Mark Olich

From the “Backstage” series
Photo by: Mark Olich


Jan 9th at 4PM / tagged: ballet. dance. photography. backstage. bw. / 371 notes
“Mnemosyne”by Mark Olich

“Mnemosyne”
by Mark Olich



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