This month ballet is back in vogue across the dance world. The Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition launched on July 10, Misty Copeland made dance history by becoming the first African-American Principal Dancer for the American Ballet Theatre (as BLOUIN ARTINFO reported last week), and the new Jamie xx-scored contemporary electro ballet “Tree of Codes” is currently showing as part of the Manchester International Festival. The production has been described as “[crackling] with sonic imagination” by Guardian reporter Mark Monahan.In other ballet news Matthew Bourne’s internationally acclaimed violent, erotic, 1960s-styled ballet “The Car Man” has returned to Sadler’s Wells theater in London this week. Based loosely on both Bizet’s opera “Carmen” (1875) and the James M Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, Bourne’s production is a triumph in modern ballet.“The Car Man drives with an urgency that has our nerves and hearts at full stretch, body language so bright with wit and so fraught with emotional subtext that it’s hard to believe not a line of dialogue has been spoken,” the Guardian reviewed.With so much ballet taking to the stage, July is the prime time to indulge an admiration for the perfect pointe. And where better to do so than your Instagram news feed?BLOUIN ARTINFO has sought out the top 5 ballerina photographers sharing their mesmerizing work on Instagram.Click slideshow to find out who you need to be following in order to see the latest underwater ballet shoot or to discover which ballerinas have been performing an arabesque penché on the streets of San Francisco.
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