SWAN LAKE

~~~TUTU IMAGE GALLERY~~~

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SPECIAL COLLECTION

   Crinolyn's Ballerinas

NOTE: If anyone has any images of ballerinas in tutus of the stiff, wired type ("hooped"), please let us put them up! (Our favorite kind!--Contact us!)

SPECIAL IMAGES TO KEEP IN YOUR HEART

Sitting in front of the mirror

[Posted 9/3/98--contributed by Robyn]

Art on Art!

[Posted 8/23/99--contributed by Lisa]
Elan! 

[Posted 8/28/00--contributed by Brian]

The soft haze of the beautiful ballerina....

[Posted 10/23/00--contributed by Brian]
Grace

 [Posted 1/21/01--contributed by Brian]

Delicacy 

[Posted 12/20/01--contributed by Sarah]

Lovely pirouette

[Posted 2/27/06--contributed by Ian]

 


A scene from the ballet Coppélia performed by The Royal Ballet:
 Roberta Marquez in the title role

Link to site

 

A DVD cover from an Australian production

 

 

COVERS OF PUBLICATIONS

An Australian ballet school

"Becoming a Dancer"

[Posted 3/4/98--contributed by Pammie]
 Spoutnik, the digest of the Soviet press, French issue of August, 1987.

Alla Mickhalchenko as Giselle

[Posted 5/17/03--contributed by Jörg ]  
 A San Diego (we believe) presentation of Nutcracker Suite -- too small to read the details

 

[Posted 2/27/06--contributed by Elizabeth]  

 
June 6, 2006 issue cover of Dance Europe

Alina Cojocaru as Aurora in the Royal Ballet's production of
The Sleeping Beauty that year

[Posted 9/18/08]

 

UNIDENTIFIED ARTISTS OF THE BALLET

Feminine fluffy white on stage, hovering in an beautifully impossible way.

[Posted 3/5/98--contributed by Crinolyn]

Muscular and graceful at the same time!

[Posted 3/26/98--contributed by Crinolyn]

The ruffled, hooped tutu is divine--here are two examples

[Posted 3/26/98--contributed by Crinolyn]

Two beauties

[Posted 5/14/98--contributed by Al]

Feminine posture

[Posted 7/7/98--contributed by Crinolyn]

My heart! 

[Posted 11/10/99--contributed by Annie]

Brightness! 

[Posted 12/30/99]

Fetching... 

[Posted 11/26/06]

CELEBRITIES IN TUTUS

Lucille Ball

[Posted 6/1/98--contributed by Jackie]

Vera Ellen (2)

[Posted 6/15/99--contributed by Crinolyn]
2003 Miss America contestant (2)

[Posted 4/10/04--contributed by Elizabeth]

 

ADVERTISEMENTS

American Express

[Posted 8/30/98]

Coke

Compliments of June [Posted 1/30/99--contributed by June]
Primadonna Tutu Company    

[Posted 8/20/00-contributed by Brian]

Ballet Central (British)

 [Posted 9/24/01-contributed by "Tutuntights']

Osetocare Advanced" (featuring    the English National Ballet)  [Posted 1/6/02-contributed by "Tutuntights']

PROGRAM AND PROGRAM COVERS

New York City Ballet -1998

               Compliments of Lisa [Posted 8/1/99]

Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet - 1998-9

               Compliments of Lisa [Posted 8/1/99]
Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet - 1996-7

 Compliments of Brian [Posted 8/23/00]

Moscow City Ballet - (date unknown)  (Contributor unknown) [Posted 2/11/02]
Covent Garden - (2002) Compliments of "Tutuntights"
 [Posted 5/26/02    
Covent Garden - (12/01-1/02)
              Nutcracker Suite w/ Darcey Bussell (Photograph: Eric Richmond)		 Compliments of "Tutuntights"
 [Posted 11/23/02] 
Chemnitz Stadthalle, Germany - (1996)   Maria Brissonskaya Compliments of Jörg [Posted 9/3/03] 
  2 Programs - 2006/7 of the National Ballet of Canada Compliments of John N. [Posted 4/16/07] 
CNB (Portugese) [Posted 11/22/08] 

 
(ABOVE) CLICK TO ENLARGE

CANDID SHOTS

SO feminine in pink!

[Posted 3/17/00]
Rehearsal - Royal ballet - "Les Saisons"

[Posted 5/25/03]

  New Zealand Ballet Company in its 2008 "Red" tour

[Posted 9/18/08]

  CLASSIC

Soft and fragile.......

Compliments of Annie [Posted 5/15/00]
Russian ballerina

Compliments of Brian [Posted 9/2/00]

Don Quixote 

Contributor unknown [Posted 10/30/01]

Dramatic!

Compliments of Ian  [Posted 3/24/05]

Ziegfield girl in preparation

[Posted 5/29/06]

"Cross My Heart"

Compliments of Ian  [Posted 5/29/06]

 

 

A duet of classic ballerina (each side)
CLICK TO ENLARGE

Below: 1920

  

 

YOUTH

Delicate.......

Compliments of Don [Posted 5/17/00]

 MAGAZINE COVERS

Art Photography, October, 1955

 [Posted 6/30/06]

MAGAZINE PICTURES

American Photographer, May, 1957     

 [Posted 7/21/06]
 Glamourous Ladies

 [Posted 12/25/07]

 

"From a magazine entitled Where, which has listings for cultural events in the San
Francisco area.  These two scans are from
the San Francisco Ballet's production of
'The Nutcracker.'"

THE RIGHT ONE CAN BE ENLARGED

GROUPS 

Member - Oakville, Ontario Ballet Company

[Posted 6/4/08]
American Ballet Theatre Corps.

[Posted 6/1/08]

Quattro

 [Posted 7/9/00]


(above) Birmingham Royal Ballet's Ashton's Scenes de ballet

ANTIQUITIES

Ballerinas at the training school of the Grand Opera de Paris during a rehearsal for Swan Lake in 1930.

[Posted 8/17/99--contributed by Bettina]
  Unidentified ballerinas of the classic mode -- before tutus became short (2 links)                  [Posted 12/26/05 & 4/29/06)--contributed by Ian]


Click above picture to enlarge

(below) BACKSTAGE:


(above) Mongolian Ballet -- click both to enlarge

(below) Ballerinas backstage -- which, according to Ian, "seem more relaxed and therefore quite thrilling."
Tessy agrees.                        Click to enlarge


 (above right) ...from a performance of Paquita
(below) We find these ballerina images to be quite unique, in that the the 'underskirt' of their tutus is more than just tulle,
rather a more elaborate wired hoop, enmeshed in pretty nylon froth - quite exciting!

   

 
(above center) Black Swan


 (above) ...from a performance of Don Quixote

 
(above right) Pertinent article

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