[Ballet] Ballet Sketches

Giselle in White Act

[Ballet, Figure Drawing] La Bayadère, Svetlana as Nikiya

La Bayadère (Bolshoi Ballet) 

[Ballet, Portrait] The core swans of Mariinsky Ballet

The Kirov core swans

 during 

Swan Lake - Лебединое озеро  

starring Ulyana Lopatkina 

Choreography by

 Mariinsky (Kirov)

[Figure Drawing] Dying Swan

The Dying Swan

The short ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1905 to Camille Saint-Saëns's cello solo Le Cyne follows the last moments in the life of a swan. The dance was beautifully interpreted by Uliana lopatkina (link) and I tried to capture some of her story-telling dance.