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Ballet Stars Through the Lens


This project marks the start of collaboration between the Mikhailovsky Theatre and the Dmitry Likhachev Foundation. One of the Foundation’s initiatives is a programme that invites artists from the USA to work in Russia.Foundation’s experts decided to support a project by the American photographer Beowulf Sheehan. The celebrated photographer proposed a series that would reflect the city of St. Petersburg through the prism of ballet.

Photo by Valery Slepnyov

Beowulf Sheehan worked at the Mikhailovsky Theatre from 9 to 18 May. Over the course of those ten days more than 40 ballet dancers took part in the photo shoots.