What is Beauty

In eight steps, beauty to Louise and me looks a little like this:


{One, What is Beauty collage (featuring The Australian Ballet's Lana Jones in Paquita, 2007, and Tatiana Riabouchinska, 1942)}


{Two, What is Beauty collage (featuring La Grande Odalisque by Ingres, 1814, and The Australian Ballet's Amber Scott)}


{Three, What is Beauty collage (featuring Nora Kaye and The Australian Ballet's Leanne Stojmenov in The Sleeping Beauty, 2009, within a lantern slide)}


{Four, What is Beauty collage (featuring Nana Gollner in Shadow of the Wind, and La Comtesse Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angély, 1798, by Baron François Gérard)}


{Five, What is Beauty collage (featuring Marilyn Jones as Odette in Swan Lake, 1968, and Nora Kaye, Gala Performance, 1941)}


{Six, What is Beauty collage (featuring The Australian Ballet's Natasha Kusen and Andrew Killian entwined in a William Morris pattern)}


{Seven, What is Beauty collage (featuring The Australian Ballet's Corps de Ballet performing La Sylphide, 2005, in a lantern slide)}


{Eight, What is Beauty collage (featuring The Sleeping Beauty, 1876, illustrated by Walter Crane, and The Australian Ballet's Amber Scott in George Balanchine's The Four Temperaments (and later re-drawn and imagined by my Mum))}

A suite of eight collages created especially for the The Australian Ballet's celebration of #whatisbeauty in the lead up to their 2015 season announcement.

For us, beauty can be found in nature, untamed or otherwise. Beauty is in the strength of a body, in movement or held still like a piece in a collage puzzle. At the meeting point between nature and a thing painstakingly constructed, beauty is a near undefinable balance.

And now it is over to you, dear friends. What is beauty to you?

Join in by creating an image or taking a photo of what beauty is to you, and share it with @ausballet on Instagram using the all important hashtag #whatisbeauty.