Eran Bugge and Michael Trusnovec in Esplanade

Eran Bugge and Michael Trusnovec in Esplanade, Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, March 2017. - For all Esplanade’s wit and charm, it is suffused with yearning.  The second movement is an elegiac lament and the fourth aches with tenderness, opening with two couples, each woman cradled in the arms of their partner.  Even in the brisk movements, dancers lightly touch one another, as if to say “play with me, please.”  Desire borders on devotion for both sexes: a man supine on the ground, props a woman up on his stomach, and promenades her like a music box ballerina. - NégyArt (Szingy Books) 

Constance Devernay and Andrew Peasgood

Constance Devernay and Andrew Peasgood in Kenneth MacMillan’s The Fairy’s Kiss, Scottish Ballet, October 2017. - MacMillan’s emotionally charged pas de deux is never far away. It might be a fanciful story, but these are real characters on stage and they touch us. The first night cast, of Constance Devernay as the Fairy, Andrew Peasgood as the Young Man and Bethany Kingsley-Garner as the Fiancée, were particularly impressive dramatically and gave a lucid account of often difficult movement. - NégyArt (Szingy Books)

Kayla-Maree Tarantolo in Each Other

Kayla-Maree Tarantolo in Each Other, Scottish Ballet, April 2017 - Contemporary choreographers understand you can do amazing things with a corps de ballet. As if to make the point Each Other ends with a long solo by artist Kayla-Maree Tarantolo who only joined the company last year. It’s a touching and sometimes funny display, as a girl/young woman looks for more than the pain and mayhem we’ve witnessed... - Szingy Books (Szigetingy Gallery) 

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse - The dancers

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1851-1932) - The dancers, 1896 (Pastel) - - Pierre Carrier-Belleuse was the son of the sculptor, Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. He studied under Alexandre Cabanel and Pierre-Victor Galland at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and first exhibited work at the Paris Salon in 1875. Carrier-Belleuse also exhibited works at the Society of French Artists (1888) and the National Society of Fine Arts (1893-1911). By 1885 Carrier-Belleuse began to work exclusively in pastels. He was awarded a Silver Medal in the Exhibition Universelle of 1889. (NegyArt Gallery) - szingy

Scottish Ballet Principal Dancer Sophie Martin

Sophie Martin for David Dawson’s brand new Swan Lake. Scottish Ballet… World premiere in spring 2016 - Photograph by David Eustace

Ballerina Madeleine Parker

Parker, a student of Michel Fokine’s, had made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, by the age of 12. Her image is preserved in bronze sculptures created by the American, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, who used Parker as her model for Playdays, for which Parker posed in 1924 when she was only 12.

Ballerina Madeleine Parker in her dressing room (1925). Photo by Sasha/Getty Images.