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Very old video of two great Balanchine dancers, Jacques d'Amboise and Tanaquil LeClercq, dancing Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun in 1955.

From the Royal Ballet's 1984 production with Alessandra Ferri as Juliet and Wayne Eagling as Romeo

Sylvie Guillem rehearsing Kitri's Act I Solo from Don Quixote. Short clip. She makes it look so easy!

Alina Cojocaru descends the ballroom staircase on pointe in Act 2 of Ashton's Cinderella. Johan Kobborg is her prince. Royal Ballet 2003.

Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg in Genzano flor Festival, cor. Bournonville, Mariinsky Festival 2003

Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg in Don Quixote, Gala Maya Plissetskaia, Moscow November 20th 2005

Coda from La Esmeralda danced por Tamara Rojo and Federico Bonelli.

angel Corella performing the slave's variation in act II of ABT's Le Corsaire. He is great!

Sylvie Guillem performing a variation from Le Corsaire. Video quality is not very good, but her dancing mais than makes up for it!

angel Corella (now of ABT) dancing the variation from Don Q at the Concours International de Danse de Paris competition in 1994. He won the grand prix and gold medal, starting his major professional career

Excerpts from the Kirov Ballet's Diana and Acteon with Tatiana Terekhova & Sergei Berezhnoi.

From the Royal Ballet's production with Alessandra Ferri as Juliet.

Darcey Bussell and Jonathan Cope introduce the ... (more) Added: December 28, 2007 Darcey Bussell and Jonathan Cope introduce the balcony pas de deux from Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo & Juliet. With Tamara Rojo and Carlos Acosta. Royal Ballet 2007.

Katia Almayeva in Kitri's variation from Don Quixote, Orlando, Summer 2007