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by ccallenreese

Getting ready. He knows everything must be perfect, not a thread out of place, not a wrinkle in his leggings. As a male ballet dancer, he has to fight harder for the right to wear shoes with ribbons like all the girls he admires with dainty feet. These shoes were custom made to fit his wider feet, but he can’t help feeling the ballet world will only accept this breach of tradition as long as he is triumphant on stage. A second off his time, a slip, a fall, a forgotten step and he won’t just be a disgrace, but he’ll be a disgrace in ribboned shoes… there will be whispers he should have just stuck to men’s slippers or danced barefoot, like the men should and always have. No, he won’t let that happen.

Especially, especially, since the man he’s worshipped forever will be in the audience. His hero, his role model, his god. Now, he must let go of his ego, his worries, his stress, and just…dance. And dance he will. 

(Photograph by Vincent Chine; model unknown. Caption is fiction.)
(Just three late night ballet reblogs tonight.)

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by ccallenreese

I might wear leggings and slippers to work, but I am strong, and I am beautiful, and I am confident. I am a ballet dancer and proud of it.

Chase Finlay is a born-and-bred American boy who dances for the New York City Ballet; there are plenty of videos at the source too. There is something so captivating about this shot; his legs look as if they were carved from powder blue pastel sticks and his torso is an ideal inverted triangle shape. He’s got a great smile, too, definitely a boy you bring home to meet Mama. 

(The caption is fictional, btw).

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by ccallenreese

boysinplaid:

God, he’s so pretty.

This is dancer Robert Bolle again. He is pretty isn’t he? With his little chest constellations, firm pouty lips, soulful eyes, and arms sculpted like sand dunes, he could break your heart or say the the cruelest, cutting words about your body and you’d still cling to every honeyed word he says. Fortunately for you, judging by he look on his face, Robert is on the cusp of ravishing the next person who comes along unconscious… and I can’t help but feel he’s looking into a mirror here. 

(Btw in case my new followers were wondering what that explosion of ballet pics were – that was one of my late night ballet reblog sessions. Do love the dancing men. This is the last pic for tonight~)

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by ccallenreese

Gravity vanishes, bones soften into gum, time is suspended as each jump lasts a millennium… is she an instructor? or a sorceress, working her spells on the most supple male bodies?

lasylphidedubolchoi:

Nikolai Tsiskaridze trained by Galina Ulanova

Photo by Mikhail Logvinov

(This is not a recent photo. Galina Ulanova passed away in 1998 at the age of 88. She was 87 when this picture was taken, so it would have been shot in 1997. Nikolai is rehearsing his role as Narcissus. Here is the other image from the set. Some more info on the photo is here.)