Isabelle Ciaravola posing for the dancewear collection “Ballet Rosa par Isabelle Ciaravola.” Photo by Michel Lidvac.
Ciaravola is an Etoile at the Paris Opera Ballet. At the age of 16, she won the First Prize from the Paris Conservatoire and entered the Paris Opera Ballet School . After graduating the School in 1990 she joined the Paris Opera Ballet and was promoted to Première Danseuse in 2003.
Paris Opera Ballet school student Bleuenn Battistoni during a summer intensive at the Royal Ballet School
ph. Brian Slater
I fully appreciate a 90 degree completely turned out leg over a turned in and super high “competition” throw
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 exactly! her placement is impeccable!!!!
The art of Ballet appears when everything else is invisible, except for the ballerina. Photo from @igforballerinas.
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IN HER OWN WORDS: MARIE-AGNÈS GILLOT
To see Marie-Agnès Gillot dance is to watch artistic passion transform into something truly magical. The prima ballerina of the Paris Opera Ballet and choreographer mesmerises audiences around the world with her exquisite work en pointe. However, her grace belies an underlying grit: Marie-Agnès was diagnosed with double-scoliosis at age 12 and spent 21 hours a day in a restrictive surgical corset for several years. This compelling combination of agile beauty and unyielding determination is precisely why we asked her to serve as model and muse this season.
[¼] Romantic Ballets
The Romantic period in literature and art heavily influenced the themes of ballet during this era. It was thought to have been set off by Marie Taglioni’s first attempts at pointework at the début of La Sylphide. This led to the rise of the long tutus and the so called ‘cult of the ballerina’. The women were seen as the main characters of the ballet, often involving dreams, sylphs and infatuation. The last true Romantic work was seen to be Coppélia.
Prima Ballerina of the St Petersburg Ballet, Irina Kolesnikova
Anna Pavlova in her London home around 1927.
Anna Pavlova (Russian 1881-1931) was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Pavlova is most recognized for the creation of the role The Dying Swan and, with her own company, became the first ballerina to tour ballet around the world. Some say she was the greatest ballet dancer who ever lived.
Though ballet is my passion and dream, it would not be entirely fair to say that it saved me, without acknowledging the human beings who played major roles in saving my life. Some of these people I loved; others I detested. But if it were not for them, I would not have a life, let alone be a ballerina…Ballet brings me joy! It is my dream-come-true. It is the way I express my emotions. It helped keep me out of trouble as a kid, and fulfils me as an adult. It is the source of my success. But to say that it has saved me is not true, because I needed to be saved long before I arrived at my first ballet class. I want to share this so that other young people will appreciate those in their lives, good and bad, who have prodded them onward and upward toward their goals.
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