Edward Watson, a cinnamon flavored pretzel and English dancer. Here’s a video of him from 2009 preparing for his role.
Last ballet reblog of the night, enjoy.
Tag: artistic
Among the stars.
This is Christopher Wheeldon, the co-founder of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and a former dancer with The Royal Ballet and soloist with New York City Ballet (where he served as Resident Choreographer from 2001 to 2008). Very elite.
Roberto Bolle
Out of everything I could love about these photos – the composition, the lighting, the poses, his musculature – my favorite thing is the freckles across his pectorals. They look like little stars.
From Wiki – “Roberto Bolle is an Italian danseur. He is currently a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and also holds guest artist status with The Royal Ballet and La Scala Theatre Ballet, making regular appearances with both companies.”
Friedemann Vogel
….of the Stuttgart Ballet.
One resplendent late night ballet reblog for my patient followers. If I could get a man in tights and a cape to give you each bouquets of flowers, I would.
Fulcrum.
This is again Sergei Polunin, a Ukranian ballet dancer, photographed by Bryan Adams for Zoo Magazine. More here.
Ascending during the Rapture.
This is Sergei Polunin, a Ukranian ballet dancer, photographed by Bryan Adams for Zoo Magazine. More here.
Only two late night ballet reblogs tonight.
Kenneth MacMillan.
No, this isn’t a recent shot of a dancer in costume for a performance with a black and white filter over it. This shot was taken in the year 1951, which makes it 62 years old. By sheer coincidence, this is how old MacMillan was when he passed away in 1992 – 62 years old. He died backstage at a show, a true dancer to the end.
Something’s really captivating about this shot – if you saw Kenneth in a pair of Buster Browns walking down the street to get a soda on a nice spring day, he’d just be another neighborhood lad in his early 20s, full of ambition about the future, maybe flirting with the girls. Put him in different shoes however, and he becomes a timeless embodiment of art. His feet come to life, and his body follows. Once a dancer, always a dancer.
Also – I originally thought this picture had a Puerto Rican Billy Elliot vibe to it, but as you can tell by his last name, MacMillan was Scottish. His career was mostly in England and Europe. A true star of ballet, gone but not forgotten. I wonder what he would have thought of Tumblr.
Source, with more photographers from the archive, is here.
Daniil Simkin doing Matrix-level ballet kung fu moves. His Twitter says, “Trying very hard to be artsy and badass at the same time.” You won in both categories, Daniil.