"Reflections" - SCFTA

As those of you that follow my blog regularly know, I had a chance to photograph a couple of the rehearsals for Reflections. So… when the Segerstrom Center for the Arts unveiled the world premiere on Thursday night, January 20th, to a cheering audience, it was very exciting to photograph the finished production. “Reflections is the Segerstrom Center's first artistic partnership with the Bolshoi Ballet, a co-commission and co-production of the institutions in association with Ardani Artists. The production stars seven of the most brilliant ballerinas in the world today -- Maria Kochetkova, Yekaterina Krysanova, Olga Malinovskaya, Natalia Osipova, Polina Semionova, Yekaterina Shipulina and Anastasia Stashkevich -- all of whom were trained in the Bolshoi's revered dance academy. They were paired throughout the evening with four of the leading male dancers of the Bolshoi -- Vyacheslav Lopatin, Denis Savin, Ivan Vasiliev and Alexander Volchkov.” My biggest challenge photographing the performance for Getty Images that night was writing the captions afterwards with all those Russian names. I hope to see them again and again as they are so inspiring and, like anything, with practice, the names will be easy! If you would like see the images (and captions), please follow the link to Getty Images, http://tiny.cc/4h29h . To check the schedule of other events at SCFTA, go to www.scfta.org .