Os meus mundos que se dão

Un cygne qui s'était évadé de sa cage,
Et, de ses pieds palmés frottant le pavé sec,
Sur le sol raboteux traînait son blanc plumage.
Près d'un ruisseau sans eau la bête ouvrant le bec

Baignait nerveusement ses ailes dans la poudre,
Et disait, le coeur plein de son beau lac natal:
«Eau, quand donc pleuvras-tu? quand tonneras-tu, foudre?»

Charles Baudelaire, "Le Cygne"

"La Mort du Cygne", coreografia de Thierry Malandain - Malandain Ballet Biarritz.

I just can get enough

... of Kitri.

Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine (Life).

Ballet...

 

... so that I can learn to close my eyes in front of the others. Even when they seem to be open.

Ekaterina Maximova e Vladimir Vasiliev (photo here)

Mademoiselle Dimanche

et ses rêveries... du repos? 

Photo ici.

So you think you can dance?

Alessandra Ferri e Roberto Bolle

Ivan Vasiliev

Noureev e Fonteyn

"Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself. If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer." (Suzanne Farrell - aqui)