Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (37 page)

Dancing the girl in pink from Robbins’s
Dances at a Gathering
with Jared Angle as the boy in purple.

Swanilda in Balanchine’s
Coppélia
with Damian Woetzel.

Peter Martins’s
Thou Swell
with James.

Grand jeté
as the Sugar Plum Fairy. The setting is just a bit different from my backyard under the old oak tree.

From a fashion-meets-dance photo shoot for a cover story of
Dance Magazine
. My costume, for Melissa Barak’s
Call Me Ben
, was designed by J. Mendel.

Peter Martins’s
Swan Lake.

In rehearsal with James.

On the way to the church, in the wedding dress that the saints of the NYCB’s amazing costume department saved from disaster.

It’s July 29, 2000, and we just said, “I do.”

From the infamous performance of “Sugar Plumgate” with my wonderful partner, Jared Angle, 2010.

Self-portrait with stage makeup! Now you can see why it takes so long to prepare for a performance . . .

Balanchine’s
Serenade
with James and my good friend and dressing-room-mate Maria Kowroski.

I have always been proud of this picture of the Wind Waltz from Robbins’s
Dances at a Gathering
because Sébastien Marcovici and I are completely in sync.