New photos on the site are of dancers from the Latvian National Ballet, shot by Anna Jurkovska. Anna lives in Riga and is working on a longterm project documenting the company backstage, in rehearsal and in performance. The project, which she hopes to publish as a book, is called Sotto Voce. Anna has posted a lot of her project photos here. She has also photographed the Latvian National Ballet’s performance of Swan Lake, which you can view here. You should take a look at her photos of India, too.
posted under: ballet
merle park in rehearsal
posted on 14/12/2014
Merle Park in rehearsal and more expressive than I’ve ever seen her in performance — here, she actually looks like she’s enjoying herself. In performance, she always seemed too controlled and much more focused on the precision of her technique than on dancing. Which, for the viewer, was a bit boring. Not to be critical — it’s just nice to see something more, and something a little more lovely and lyrical, in her dancing. Photos by Keith Money.
maya plisetskaya: bolero
posted on 25/11/2014
Le Ballet du XXe Siècle – Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, 1976
royal ballet: osipova in giselle
posted on 17/11/2014
Clip below is from last January, but always worth seeing again…
alexey brodovitch: ballet
posted on 12/11/2014