I’m looking forward to seeing you in the Daria Klimentova Gala! Do you choose the pieces you perform, or are they chosen for you?
I chose them.
Principal Dancer with the San Francisco Ballet and solo winner of 'Superstars of Dance'. Former dancer with ENB and The Royal Ballet. Trained at the Bolshoi.
www.mariakochetkova.com
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I think I’m 14 in this photo. Dancing pas de trois from Nutcracker in Moscow
Daniil Simkin and me dancing at the World Ballet Festival in Tokyo last summer.
I wear Sansha, but I’m trying out a new pair of Gaynor Mindens at the moment

What a ceiling in the ballet studio!
I chose them.
What should I do while I’m in Prague?

(via abi-sweetheart)
Anna Pavlova performs Dying Swan by Saint-Saens, at the Kirov Ballet
(via nicolev)
Coco Rocha (wearing a silk tulle Alexander McQueen gown) and ballet dancer Roberto Bolle enact the tragic ending of Romeo and Juliet as photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue, Dec 2008.