Strokes Through the Tail – Svetlana Zakharova (Amore)

Strokes Through the Tail, music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, choreography by Marguerite Donlon, costume designer Igor Chapurin; lighting Andrei Abramov. Amore, three one act ballets. Shot in 14.3.2017 in The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.

• Svetlana Zakharova (Rus. Светлана Захарова)
• Mikhail Lobukhin (Михаил Лобухин)
• Denis Savin (Денис Савин)
• Vladislav Kozlov (Владислав Козлов)
• Alexei Gaynutdinov (Алексей Гайнутдинов)
• Anton Gaynutdinov (Антон Гайнутдинов)

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Marguerite Donlon, born 31 1966, is an Irish dancer, choreographer and ballet director. Marguerite Donlon was born in the Republic of Ireland. After a childhood of traditional Irish dance, Marguerite began her ballet studies with Anica Louw and Dorothy Stevens at the late age of 16. She became a soloist and choreographer with the dance company of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1990; before that she was a member of the English National Ballet under Peter Schaufuss. During this time she worked with and was coached by many world-renowned artists, including Natalia Makarova, Rudolf Nureyev, Kenneth MacMillan, and danced pieces from choreographers such as Maurice Béjart, William Forsythe, Bill T. Jones, Meg Stuart and Jiří Kylián. She was director of the ballet at the Saarländisches Staatstheater between 2001 and 2013. /Wikipedia/

Photo by Jack Devant ballet photography © with kind permission of the Bolshoi Theatre and MuzArts, special thanks to Kate Matlashenko, Yury Baranov and Timofey Ovsenni.