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Posts tagged Sylvie Guillem:

thecrystalpalace:

SYLVIE GUILLEM. PHOTOGRAPHIC SELF-PORTRAIT, 2000 (from Spanish Vogue)

thecrystalpalace:

SYLVIE GUILLEM. PHOTOGRAPHIC SELF-PORTRAIT, 2000 (from Spanish Vogue)

Sylvie Guillem and Jonathan Cope in Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan).
Royal Ballet, London.
Detail of photograph taken by Gilles Tapie.

Sylvie Guillem and Jonathan Cope in Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan).

Royal Ballet, London.

Detail of photograph taken by Gilles Tapie.

Sylvie Guillem in rehearsal. Sometime in the 1980’s.

Sylvie Guillem in rehearsal. Sometime in the 1980’s.

Sylvie Guillem
Sleeping Beauty (Dowell) before curtain-up, Royal Opera House, London.
Photograph by Gilles Tapie.

Sylvie Guillem

Sleeping Beauty (Dowell) before curtain-up, Royal Opera House, London.

Photograph by Gilles Tapie.

Sylvie Guillem
La Bayadere (Makarova), Act II, Royal Opera House, London.

Sylvie Guillem

La Bayadere (Makarova), Act II, Royal Opera House, London.

In our time, mediocrity is on top, that’s what is immediately under the light… And now there are people put on top who you don’t even want to look at. You can’t look up to them.

—Sylvie Guillem

Sylvie Guillem as a student at the Paris Opera Ballet School.
She reminds me of a puppy here: the way she hasn’t quite grown into her feet yet- which at this point are still a little too big for her.

Sylvie Guillem as a student at the Paris Opera Ballet School.

She reminds me of a puppy here: the way she hasn’t quite grown into her feet yet- which at this point are still a little too big for her.

Sylvie Guillem .. rehearsing on stage for Sleeping Beauty. Royal Opera House. Photograph by Gilles Tapie.

Sylvie Guillem .. rehearsing on stage for Sleeping Beauty. Royal Opera House. Photograph by Gilles Tapie.