Keep Calm duet by Maxim Zyuzin and Zlata Yalinich

Keep Calm duet by Maxim Zyuzin (Rus. Максим Зюзин) and Zlata Yalinich (Rus. Злата Ялинич). Choreography by Vladimir Varnava (Rus. Владимир Варнава), music by Marvin Berry, Anton Arensky, Johann Strauss. Context, contemporary ballet festival by Diana Vishneva. Shot on 29.11.2014 in Mossovet Theatre, Moscow, Russia.

Zlata Yalinich (Rus. Злата Ялинич) is a Coryphee with Mariinsky Ballet. She was born in Petrozavodsk. Zlata graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2008 and joined Boris Eifman Ballet. She joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 2012.

Maxim Zyuzin (Rus. Максим Зюзин) is soloist with Mariinsky Ballet. Maxim was born in Almaty (Kazakhstan). He graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2001 and joined the Mariinsky Ballet the same year.

Photos by Jack Devant © with kind permission of Context contemporary ballet festival, and Diana Vishneva, special thanks to Ksenia Timoshkina.