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Photo Sessions – Anjuli Hudson, Jem Choi, Guilherme Menezes & Barry Drummond, English National Ballet

Posted on November 5, 2018

I’ve been fortunate to make a bunch of new friends thanks to my work at C&V, but living in Singapore means I rarely get to meet up with my dancer friends living all around the world. So when I heard that the English National Ballet was touring to Hong Kong this July, I was sorely tempted to take the 3 hour flight up to see my friends in person. After a bit of hemming and hawing, I took the plunge…

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A Day In the Life: Jeanette Kakareka, Bayerisches Staatsballett.

Posted on May 25, 2018

Bayaricshes Stattsballett artist Jeanette Kakareka takes us through a day in her busy life as a professional corps ballerina.…

Ballet Mental Health Photo Sessions

Keeping It Real: On Eating Disorder Recovery

Posted on February 28, 2018

As an eating disorder survivor, I try to make a point of addressing the issue of eating disorders and recovery on C&V during Eating Disorder Awareness Week every year. I make the effort because I remember how lonely and difficult recovery is, and I know that the nature of ballet has meant that a fair number of dancers struggle with disordered eating. But this year, I didn’t want to do it. I got my act together enough to pitch an…

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Photo Sessions: Flaunt Your Ballet Body!

Posted on February 5, 2018

Watching my fellow adult dancers in class is a good reminder of why I dance. Ballet is about constantly striving for improvement, and it can easy to get bogged down in the negatives: my turnout isn’t good enough, I can’t remember that combination, my alignment is wrong, my body isn’t thin or tall or muscular or petite enough. Sometimes it frustrates me when I don’t seem to be improving. But then I look at my friends in class: we laugh…

Ballet C&V Ladies Interviews Movers & Shakers Photo Sessions

Movers and Shakers: Patricia Zhou

Posted on November 1, 2017

Should I change my job? Should I move? Where do I go next? Is this the right time? What am I doing with my life? Change is inevitable, but seldom easy. In an ongoing series called Movers and Shakers, we’ll be talking to dancers who’ve made changes in their lives and careers to find out what they’ve learnt and what impact it’s had on them. Here, we talk to Patricia Zhou, Prix de Lausanne winner and one of the first…

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Cloud & Victory X Angelica Generosa & Lindsay Thomas

Posted on July 18, 2017

This summer, C&V approached Lindsay Thomas, inhouse photographer at Pacific Northwest Ballet, to collaborate with us on a series of photos. I had admired Lindsay’s work for a while – she takes some seriously dreamy photos and has a sense of humour that we at C&V can vibe with (is ‘vibe’ still an acceptable expression? Was it ever?). In fact, we had the exact same idea to make pun-filled, ballet-flavoured Valentine’s day cards. It goes without saying that there are so…

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Interview – Mathilde Froustey, San Francisco Ballet

Posted on June 1, 2017

Cloud & Victory brought San Francisco Ballet principal dancer and former Paris Opera Ballet soloist, Mathilde Froustey, to Singapore in April to teach a series of ballet masterclasses. During her time here, we sat down with her to have a dialogue about her perspectives on ballet, her career and the realities and responsibilities of being a professional ballet dancer.…

Ballet C&V Ladies Photo Sessions

Cloud & Victory Fall/Winter 2015

Posted on October 28, 2015

We recently launched the Cloud & Victory Fall/Winter 2015 collection, which features a ‘Mean Girls’ twist on ballet this season – something that was probably fairly inevitable, given my inability to divorce C&V from ballet humour and pop-culture references.…

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Cloud & Victory Spring/Summer 2015

Posted on March 11, 2015

After months upon months of work, Cloud & Victory’s Spring/Summer 2015 collection was recently launched. It was so thrilling to once again have the wonderful Joy Womack model the collection of ballet-inspired tops, skirts and leggings, and we hope everyone will enjoy it. …

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C&V Photo Sessions: Cloud & Victory x the Dancers of Vaganova Ballet Academy

Posted on February 14, 2015

A gaggle of girls cluster around me in the dimly-lit photo studio, waiting for my instructions. Nastya and Sasha have to leave early. “So how about you sit and I shoot you wearing your pointe shoes,” I say. The two long-limbed young women in question pull out a fresh pair of satin pink pointe shoes apiece and sit against the white studio backdrop, shifting slightly as I reposition them. Their friends disappear down the corridor to a dressing room. One…

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