Ballet San Jose Principal dancer Alexsandra Meijer, photographed for Don Quixote by Chris Hardy.
Denis and Anastasia Matvienko in the grand pas de deux from Don Quixote.
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*wearing a tutu in a dance competition* i know what you all are thinking, “this tool’s gonna do the kitri variation like every other ballerina at a competition”, i just want you to know i’m not like that. i’m not one of those ballerinas. anyway here’s the esmeralda variation
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Never doubt yourself when you’re executing a step. Whether you’re onstage alone, next to a huge star or in the corps de ballet, if you convince yourself that you’re a prima ballerina, your movement will take on the confidence of one.
Melissa Hamilton
Sometimes in real life we don’t have this opportunity to have that much emotion, or we reserve ourselves, but in the ballet—through the music and through the body language—you can express a lot and feel betrayed and miserable and in pain and fight and everything.
Irina Dvorovenko
“The world does not console me, does not hold me,”
— Birhan Keskin, from And Silk and Love and Flame: Poems; “Water,”
“How changed, how full of ache, how gone,”
— John Keats, from The Complete Poems and Selected Letters; “Endymion,”