ballerina

A portrait of ballerina <n>Diana Vishneva</n>.

Ballerina <n>Suzanne Farrell</n> in <n>George Balanchine</n>'s ballet <n>Apollo</n>. Photo by <n>Martha Swope</n>.

Ballet dancers <n>Alla Osipenko</n> and <n>John Markovsky</n>, circa 1970s.

Dancer and choreographer <n>Pina Bausch</n>. Photo by <n>Maarten Vanden Abeele</n>.

Choreographer <n>Jerome Robbins</n> rehearsing with dancers.

A dance performance choreographed by <n>Pina Bausch</n>.

Ballet dancer <n>Sylvie Guillem</n>. Photo by <n>Gilles Tapie</n>.

Dancers <n>Rudolf Nureyev</n> and <n>Margot Fonteyn</n> rehearsing the ballet <n>Marguerite and Armand</n>. Photo by <n>Zoe Dominic</n>.

Costumes by <n>Issey Miyake</n> for <n>William Forsythe</n>'s "<n>The Loss of Small Detail</n>" (1991), shot by <n>Sven Arnstein</n>.

<n>Ballerina</n> (c. 1950), a photograph by <n>Sabine Weiss</n>.

A performance of <n>Café Müller</n> by <n>Pina Bausch</n>.

<n>Vladimir Lagrange</n>'s photograph of a ballerina at the <n>Bolshoi Theatre</n>, 1964.

Actress <n>Brigitte Bardot</n> in a dance rehearsal studio, 1950. Photo by <n>John Sadovy</n>.

Choreographer <n>George Balanchine</n> rehearsing with ballerina <n>Maria Tallchief</n>.

Ballerina <n>Suzanne Farrell</n> with choreographer <n>George Balanchine</n>.

<n>Brigitte Bardot</n> photographed by <n>John Sadovy</n>.

Model <n>Kathryn Morgan</n> of the <n>New York City Ballet</n>, photographed by <n>Ali Harper</n>.

Dancers <n>Sylvie Guillem</n> and <n>Laurent Hilaire</n> performing in the ballet <n>Romeo and Juliet</n>.