this stylish short film from gala de ballet de buenos aires. love the dramatic music! beautiful footage. incredible dancers. gorgeous!
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half of american ballet theatre snuggling koalas and kangaroos in brisbane.
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here is a wonderful video of the joffrey ballet rehearsing “prodigal son” with edward villella – if you live in the chicago area please go see this on my behalf. thanks 😉 (this alberto velazquez guy is intriguing, isn’t he? a bit of a sensuous quality about him and an interesting face. i like him!)
unfortunately i wasn’t home to watch the joffrey’s livestream rehearsal of swan lake with christopher wheeldon, but happily it is still available to watch on youtube and i plan to get to it soon.
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a beautiful image of the mariinsky ballet by mark olich – love the view from above!
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and a cute and silly picture of pugs doing ballet that appeared in my FB feed the other day (thanks johanna)! the drawings are by illustrator sarah ogilvie and i believe they are from a children’s book called “dogs don’t do ballet” by anna kemp. (alas, i have not read the book since i no longer have kids in the appropriate age range. however maybe i will go sneak read it at the library just for fun 😉 )
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and finally daniel ulbricht making a surprise guest appearance during a manhattan youth ballet stage rehearsal. ♥♥♥
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these lovely things 