Luana Georg and Sergei Upkin in The Sleeping Beauty PDD

Luana Georg as princess Aurora and Sergei Upkin as prince Désiré in The Sleeping Beauty, Choreography by Marius Petipa, new redaction by Toomas Edur, Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Shot during dress rehearsal on 12.11.2014 in Estonia.

Luana Georg is a soloist with Estonian National Ballet. She was graduated from the Tallinn Ballet School in 1993. During the years 1993–1994 she was the member of the Estonian National Ballet troupe. Since 1999 she is the soloist of the same company.

Sergey Upkin is the principal dancer of the Estonian National Ballet. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1999. He was the principal dancer of the Estonian National Ballet (1999–2005) and is again since 2008. In 2005–2007 Sergey Upkin workedwith Staatsballet Berlin.

Photos by Jack Devant © with kind permission of the Estonian National Ballet, Toomas Edur and Age Oks, special thanks to Ylla Veerg.