An adorable picture of Daria Klimentova with flowers after her final performance with the English National Ballet. If you haven’t seen the BBC documentary Agony and Ecstasy: A year with the English National Ballet, you should! It’s a great look at her and her dancing relationship with 20 years her junior Vadim Muntagirov. They are so good on stage together! All the feels. She is a great ballerina, not only technically capable but also dramatic, playful, and strong ..read more

When dancers get engaged! Congrats to NYCB dancers Joaquin de Luz and Emilie Garrity on their engagement!  Photos: instagram @jdeluz23 and @emilieger ..read more

Balanchine Time at the Paris Opera Ballet! Loving the new costumes by Karl Lagerfeld for the Brahms Schoenburg Quartet.  The repertoire for the Oct. 28th 2016 performance: Mozartiana (Dorothée Gilbert, Mathieu Ganio) Sonatine (Léonore Baulac, Germain Louvet) Brahms-Schönberg Quartet (Act I: Colasante, Chailloux, Westermann, II: Albisson, Bullion, III: Ould-Braham, Heyman, IV: Renavand, Paquette) Violin Concerto (Amandine Albisson, Stéphane Bullion, Alice Renavand, Karl Paquette) I was curious to see the Opera de Paris perform Balanchine… As always, execution and technique was ..read more

Love this portrait of Aurélie Dupont. Will be so interesting to see what she does with the Paris Opera Ballet. #likeaboss. Photo: Sophie Delaporte ..read more

The Afterlife of a Ballerina: I had no idea!!!! Alexandra Ansanelli is now working for her father’s medical practice.  ..read more

American Ballet Theatre corps de ballet dancer Courtney Levine talks about her favorite things in a new short film for Chanel titled “All Things Nice.” Source.  ..read more

Kendall Jenner stars in a “ballet-INSPIRED” shoot in Vogue Spain. It is catching a lot of attention from the dance world, especially the last image where she’s wearing pointe shoes and standing on point. In the promo video by Vogue Spain, she’s seen twirling around and doing little hops. Photos/screen capture via Instagram @kendalljenner.  My thoughts: In today’s world where we have tons of information, authenticity is everything. As soon as we catch a whiff of something that’s not genuine, we know. Thus, it’s no surprise that a lot of dancers are calling out the model’s lack ..read more

BALLET REVIEW: ABT ON TOUR IN PARIS - LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT (Sleeping Beauty) Last tuesday (September 6th, 2016) I watched American Ballet Theatre on tour in Paris perform Alexei Ratmansky’s Sleeping Beauty. I chose this night because it was a cast of some of my favorite ABT dancers:  Princess Aurora: Stella Abrera Prince Desire: Alex Hammoudi Lilac Fairy: Veronika Part Carabosse: Marcelo Gomes Diamond Fairy: D. Teuscher Bluebird: J. Cirio Princess Florine: S. Lane (Side note: I was surprised to see that a corps de ballet dancer, Cassandra Trenary, is opening and closing the ..read more

BALLET REVIEW: PARIS OPERA BALLET’S “ROMEO ET JULIETTE”  Last night I had the honor of watching Dorothée Gilbert and Hugo Marchand perform Romeo and Juliet at the Opera Bastille, with choreography and staging by Rudolf Nureyev. By the time I purchased my tickets at the end of February, the entire March and early April run was nearly sold out. This is clearly a production that Paris adores.  The sets and staging are sumptuous and dramatic. Nureyev was inspired by “West Side Story” and it shows. One can feel the drama and tension between the Capulets and the M ..read more

Soooo I guess Andrew Veyette and Ashley Hod are together now? And that Andrew Veyette and Megan Fairchild are now separated, after 9 years of being together and 2+ years of marriage… Eep. Breakups at NYCB! I guess that’s life. Pics via Instagram.  ..read more