Legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova attending a ballet gala staged to celebrate her birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

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Ballet dancers applauding for Natalya Makarova (foreground, center) at a ballet gala staged to celebrate the legendary ballerina's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896314

Ballet dancers applauding for Natalya Makarova (foreground, center) at a ballet gala staged to celebrate the legendary ballerina's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896313

Soloist with the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre Viktoria Tereshkina performing "pas d'action" from Ludwig Minkus's balet "La Bayadère" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896312

Diana Vishnyova (the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre) and Marselo Gomes (American Ballet Theatre) performing a duet from Jules Massenet's ballet "Manon" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896311

Diana Vishnyova (the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre) and Marselo Gomes (American Ballet Theatre) performing a duet from Jules Massenet's ballet "Manon" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896310

Diana Vishnyova (the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre) performing in Jules Massenet's ballet "Manon" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896309

Diana Vishnyova (the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre) and Marselo Gomes (American Ballet Theatre) performing a duet from Jules Massenet's ballet "Manon" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896308

Diana Vishnyova (the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre) and Marselo Gomes (American Ballet Theatre) performing a duet from Jules Massenet's ballet "Manon" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

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Gala to celebrate the Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova's birthday at St. Petersburg's Alexandrinsky Theater, as part of the 10th international ballet festival Dance Open

03.04.2011#896306

Soloists with the Stuttgart Ballet Sujin Kang and Jason Riley performing a piece from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "Eugene Onegin" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896305

Soloists with the Stuttgart Ballet Sujin Kang and Jason Riley performing a piece from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "Eugene Onegin" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896304

Soloists with the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Natalya Osipova and Ivan Vasilyev performing "pas de deux" from Ludwig Minkus's ballet "Don Quixote" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896303

Soloist with the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Natalya Osipova performing "pas de deux" from Ludwig Minkus's ballet "Don Quixote" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896302

Soloist with the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Natalya Osipova performing "pas de deux" from Ludwig Minkus's ballet "Don Quixote" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896301

Soloists with the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Natalya Osipova and Ivan Vasilyev performing "pas de deux" from Ludwig Minkus's ballet "Don Quixote" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896300

Soloists with Hamburg Ballet Anna Polikarpova and Ivan Urban performing "Adagietto" by Gustav Mahler at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896299

Soloists with Hamburg Ballet Anna Polikarpova and Ivan Urban performing "Adagietto" by Gustav Mahler at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896298

Soloists with Hamburg Ballet Anna Polikarpova and Ivan Urban performing "Adagietto" by Gustav Mahler at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896297

Soloists with Hamburg Ballet Anna Polikarpova and Ivan Urban performing "Adagietto" by Gustav Mahler at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896296

Soloists with Hamburg Ballet Anna Polikarpova and Ivan Urban performing "Adagietto" by Gustav Mahler at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896295

Soloist with the Moscow Academic Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre Semyon Chudin performing "pas de deux" from Adolphe Adam's ballet "Giselle" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896294

Soloist with the Moscow Academic Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre Kristina Kretova performing "pas de deux" from Adolphe Adam's ballet "Giselle" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896293

Soloists with the Moscow Academic Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre Kristina Kretova and Semyon Chudin performing "pas de deux" from Adolphe Adam's ballet "Giselle" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896292

Soloists with the Moscow Academic Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre Kristina Kretova and Semyon Chudin performing "pas de deux" from Adolphe Adam's ballet "Giselle" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896291

Soloists with New York City Ballet Maria Kowroski and Tyler Angle performing George Gershwin's "Who Cares" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896288

Jurgita Dronina (the Dutch National Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet) performing Sergei Prokofyev's ballet "Romeo and Juliet" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896286

Jurgita Dronina (the Dutch National Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet) and Cédric Ygnace (the Dutch National Ballet) performing a piece from Sergei Prokofyev's ballet "Romeo and Juliet" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896285

Jurgita Dronina (the Dutch National Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet) and Cédric Ygnace (the Dutch National Ballet) performing a piece from Sergei Prokofyev's ballet "Romeo and Juliet" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896284

Gala to celebrate the Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova's birthday at St. Petersburg's Alexandrinsky Theater, as part of the 10th international ballet festival Dance Open: Jurgita Dronina and Sedric Ygnace, of the Dutch National Ballet, starring in Sergei Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet"

04.04.2011#896283

Soloist with the Royal Ballet of London Sergei Polunin performing "pas de deux" from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Sleeping Beauty" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896282

Soloists with the Royal Ballet of London Alina Cojocaru and Sergei Polunin performing "pas de deux" from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Sleeping Beauty" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896281

Soloist with the Stuttgart Ballet Sujin Kang performing a piece from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "Eugene Onegin" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896280

Soloists with the Royal Ballet of London Alina Cojocaru and Sergei Polunin performing "pas de deux" from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Sleeping Beauty" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896279

Soloists with the Stuttgart Ballet Sujin Kang and Jason Riley performing a piece from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "Eugene Onegin" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896278

Soloists with the Stuttgart Ballet Sujin Kang and Jason Riley performing a piece from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "Eugene Onegin" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896277

Soloists with the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Natalya Osipova and Ivan Vasilyev performing "pas de deux" from Ludwig Minkus's ballet "Don Quixote" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896276

Soloists with the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Natalya Osipova and Ivan Vasilyev performing "pas de deux" from Ludwig Minkus's ballet "Don Quixote" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896275

Diana Vishnyova (the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre) and Marselo Gomes (American Ballet Theatre) performing a duet from Jules Massenet's ballet "Manon" at a ballet gala staged to celebrate legendary ballerina Natalya Makarova's birthday as part of the 10th International Ballet Festival "Dance Open." Alexandrinsky Theatre.

03.04.2011#896274