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La Bayadère |
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La Bayadère |
Summer season at American Ballet Theatre features many full-length traditional story ballets. Classical ballet appears to be the most popular and thriving of the traditional performing arts. Such miraculous reservoirs of talent and energy poured into a structure that disappears the instant after it comes into being.
Famous and superb ballerinas of the company in these photographs include – top to bottom – Olga Smirnova (La Bayadère), Diana Vishneva (La Bayadère), Polina Semionova (Giselle), and Gillian Murphy (Swan Lake).
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Frederick Ashton's Cinderella |
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Roman Zhurbin and Craig Salstein as Cinderella's sisters |
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Giselle |
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Swan Lake |
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Swan Lake - Odile |
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Swan Lake - Odile |
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Swan Lake - Odette |
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Swan Lake - Odette |