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Dancers Gear Up for the 2023 USA International Ballet Competition

This month, the USA International Ballet Competition gears up for its 12th edition of festivities. Founded by renowned dancer and educator Thalia Mara, the USA IBC kicked off in 1979 and has taken place every four years since. Dancers from around the world will once again gather in Jackson, Mississippi, June 10–24, for two bustling […]

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A male in a deep lunge holds her partner's hand as she does a piqué arabesque on pointe.

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A collage of four photos, shown side-by-side, displays two female and two male dancers in various dance poses.

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Dancers Gear Up for the 2023 USA International Ballet Competition

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In a dance studio, a female ballet student and a young male violin student stand back-to-back, posing for the camera.

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Hitomi Nakamura dances center stage during a ballet performance of Moulin Rouge. She wears a purple can-can dress and poses on pointe with her left leg in a turned in passé. She holds her skirt up, exposing her legs, and gives the audience a cheeky smile. Behind her, other women in colorful can-can dresses kneel on the ground and hold up their skirts, while men in tuxedos and top hats stand in a line behind them. In the background is a large windmill set covered in neon lights.

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Indiana Woodward performs onstage as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. She is shown from the thigh up wearing a pink tutu with rosette embellishments on the bodice and tutu and puffy sleevelets on her upper arms. She neds her body slightly to her right and looks over her right shoulder, smiling brightly, and opens her arms generously, curving them up at the elbow.

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A ballet dancer works at the barre in the studio. She stands in first position with her left arm on the barre and her left arm raised slightly in second, as if about to plié. Her reflection can be seen in the studio mirror.

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Hitomi Nakamura dances center stage during a ballet performance of Moulin Rouge. She wears a purple can-can dress and poses on pointe with her left leg in a turned in passé. She holds her skirt up, exposing her legs, and gives the audience a cheeky smile. Behind her, other women in colorful can-can dresses kneel on the ground and hold up their skirts, while men in tuxedos and top hats stand in a line behind them. In the background is a large windmill set covered in neon lights.

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A dancer in a long white tutu stands on pointe in a wide croisé fourth position. She poses in a large, floor-to-ceiling window in a large white dance studio and reaches her right arm high. Outside the window are snow-covered trees.

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Jurgita Dronina, in a black feathered tutu as Odile, is photographed in the air mid-leap, her right leg extended in second and her left leg bent under her torso.

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