Backstage with Prima Ballerina Nina Zmievets of The Eifman Ballet Company of St Petersburg' Russian Federation.

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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching" ~ William W. Purkey

Backstage with Prima Ballerina Nina Zmievets of ' The Eifman Ballet Company of St Petersburg-Russian Federation. ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul”~ Martha Graham

Eifman Ballet Company of St Petersburg Russia ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

“Life is just learning to dance in the rain - enjoy every drop and enjoy every pain!”
~ Mary Rose Magnaye

Ballerinas feet in ballet point shoes leaving the ground. Photographed at the Julio Bocca ballet school in Buenos Aires-Argentina.

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“Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.” ~ James Howe.

A dancer of the London Ballet Company ~ London England. Photography Sebastian Rich All rights reserved.

“Blood cannot be without dancing. There is no dancing without blood.” ~ Cameron Conaway

Ballerina Carolina Caparariati ~ San Martin Ballet Company ~ Argentina.

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"No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance”~ Marquita Burke-DeJesus.

Tango dancers in a show.Buenos Aires Argentina ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Backstage with the Eifman Ballet Company of St Petersburg' Russian Federation ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

Kate Weare dance Company New York City.
Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.” ~ Peter Saint James .
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On location in Los Angeles California with Mathilde Froustey of the San Francisco Ballet. A real pleasure to photograph such grace and beauty and such patience with this photographer. Mathilde Froustey was born in Bordeaux, France, and received her training at the Marseille National School of Ballet and Paris Opéra Ballet School. At age 17, she joined Paris Opéra Ballet, where she was a soloist. She joined San Francisco Ballet as a principal dancer in 2013. At San Francisco Ballet, Froustey has danced principal roles in Tomasson’s Giselle (Giselle), Nutcracker (Grand Pas de Deux Ballerina and Sugar Plum Fairy), Caprice, The Fifth Season, and Trio; Balanchine’s Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet; Gsovsky’s Grand Pas Classique; Lifar’s Suite en Blanc; Makarova’s (after Petipa) Kingdom of the Shades, Act II from La Bayadère; and Ratmansky’s From Foreign Lands and Shostakovich Trilogy (Symphony #9 and Chamber Symphony). In addition, she has danced lead roles in Cranko’s Onegin, Neumeier’s Lady of the Camellias, Nureyev’s La Bayadère, Don Quixote (Kitri), Nutcracker, Raymonda, and Swan Lake; Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée, Balanchine’s Serenade, Lacotte’s Paquita and La Sylphide; McGregor’s L’Anatomie de la Sensation and Genus; and works by Serge Lifar and Roland Petit, among others.She was honored with a Paris Ballet Donation Foundation dance prize and a gold medal at the Varna International Competition, both in 2004; the Ballet2000 dance prize in 2007; and Danza & Danza’s best foreign dancer award in 2013.

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Mathilde Froustey Principle dancer of The San Francisco Ballet
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“If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.”~ Agnostic Zetetic

Elderly couple dance the Tango in a Milonga.Buenos Aires Argentina.

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“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking”~ Agnes De Mille

Chad Ortiz of the Michael Nickerson-Rossi Dance Company rehearsing at the Elevation Studios-Long Beach California USA ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

“I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance”~ George Balanchine

Chanelle Glen of the Michael Nickerson-Rossi Dance Company rehearsing at the Elevation Studios ,Long Beach California USA ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

A dancer at the Julio Bocca Ballet Academy in Buenos Aires Argentinagets angry with herself rehearsing a move she cannot seem to perfect ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

“The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.”~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dancers of The Peridance Company at Capezio Dance studio NYC ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

“If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love”~ Craig Ferguson

Eifman Ballet Company of St Petersburg Russia. ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

“Dance your pain, sing your sorrows, because there is nothing else tomorrow.” ~ Santosh Kalwar

Exhausted Ballerina "Soledad Mangia 25yrs old" Of "The Ballet Argentino Company" takes a well earned break in the reahersal for the piece "wonder Woman" At the studios of The Julio Bocca Ballet School in Buenos Aires Argentina ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

Kate Weare dance Company New York City.
“Give the mind rest, do not stress too much on thoughts, close your eyes and let your spirit dance.” ~ Shah Asad Rizvi ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

The Eifman Ballet Company of St Petersburg Russia ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

“There are things that the heart thinks of that only the body understands, that is why i dance.”
~ Paul Bamikole

Contempary dancers at the Julio Bocca Ballet School.Buenos Aires Argentina.

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16yr old ballerina Mercedes Calderon of the Julio Bocca Ballet School is predicted to be the next world sensation in ballet. Photographed at the Julio Bocca ballet School Buenos Aires Argentina ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.

“If you get all tangled up, just tango on.” ~ Al Pacino in the film ~ Scent of Woman

Ballet dancers mix traditional Tango moves and contempary ballet at the Julio Bocca Ballet school Buenos Aires Argentina ~ Photography: Sebastian Rich/Copyright/All Rights reserved.