time-lordd: saiktaru: vagin0: disneyprincessoflyrian: books-and-cookies: alexbelvocal: ultravioletnights: i’m sorry but there is no way you could have stopped me from standing on my chair and screeching like a banshee if i saw this live… What how HOW “ballet isn’t a sport” The thing about this is, you can barely see their muscles straining from effort. …
Tag Archives: ballerinas
yoiness: Olesya Novikova and Philipp Stepin in Sleeping Beauty photo © Katerina Kravtsova
lasylphidedubolchoi: Bolshoi’s Giselle Photo by Ekaterina Vladimirova
tutu-fangirl: Angelina Vorontsova as Princess Aurora, the Rose Adagio from The Sleeping Beauty © Jack Devant
miawallaxce: Beauxbatons Academy of Magic »The students at Beauxbatons Academy have been taught to stand at attention from when their Headmistress enters the room until she seats herself, showing great respect for her.«
books0977: En Attitude. Dame Laura Knight RA, RWS (British, 1877-1970). Gouache and watercolour. Sotheby’s identified the title as En Attitude. There may be some confusion as the dancer here is not in the attitude position, performed by balancing on one leg while lifting and bending the other leg either behind, in front of, or to the side …
leirelatent: Isadora Duncan by Arnold Genthe (1926)