Ballet: A Visual Timeline
“Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. It is matter, graceful and terrible, animated and embellished by movement.”
Sources:
Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg in La Fille mal Gardee © John Ross
Natalia Osipova as Giselle © ROH / Bill Cooper 2013
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Paquita: Ekaterina Kondaurova © Jack Devant
Marianela Nuñez in Don Quixote © Tristram Kenton
Le Corsaire by English National Ballet
Francesca Hayward as Swanilda and Gary Avis as Dr Coppélius in Coppélia © ROH / Bill Cooper 2019
© Gene Schiavone
Natalia Somova in La Bayadère © Jack Devant
Sarah Lamb as Odette in Swan Lake © ROH / Bill Cooper 2018
Fumi Kaneko as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty © ROH / Andrej Uspenski 2023
Australian Ballet
Mayara Magri in Raymonda © ROH Tristram Kenton 2019
Svetlana Zakharova in The Dying Swan © Luigi Gasparroni
Baku, 2014
© ROH / Johan Persson 2009
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Dorthee Girbert & Mathieu Ganio in Daphnis & Chloe
© Sébastien Mathé
Filipa de Castro (Bailados) 2001
Pulcinella- Marinsky Theatre
Les Noces- Marinsky Theatre
The Joffrey Ballet
The Royal Ballet
Marianela Nuñez as Cinderella (ROH)
Song of The Earth © ROH / Bill Cooper 2015
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Natalia Osipova and Matthew Golding in Cranko's Onegin © ROH / Emma Kauldhar
Marianela Nuñez as Manon & Nehemiah Kish as Des Grieux in Manon © ROH / Johan Persson 2011
Sarah Lamb as Mary Vetsera and Steven McRae as Crown Prince Rudolf in Mayerling © ROH / Alice Pennefather 2017
Victoria Marr as Fortuna in Carmina Burana © Bill Cooper
Brian Maloney and Melissa Hamilton in Chroma © ROH/Bill Cooper 2010
Akane Takada in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. © ROH / Dave Morgan
Alessandra Ferri in Woolf Works © Tristram Kenton 2015
Tobias Batley in 1984 © Emma Kauldhar
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes © Johan Perrson
Alexandra Ansanelli and Valeri Hristov in "Ondine"
