Dancers' dogs, cats and swans

We’ve asked our South African Mzansi Ballet dancers to gives us photos with their pets but here, to set the stage, are some dancers from further afield with their best friends.

Anna Pavlova with pet swan Jack

 

ABT star Marcelo Gomes with Lua

 

Gorgeous Lua, the world's most famous ballet dog

 

Paris Opera Ballet etoile Marie-Agnes Gillot and companions

 

Mourka and the great Mr. B share a moment

 

Bolshoi prima Svetlana Zakharova with poodle

 

San Francisco Ballet's Garen Scribner with Pilot

(Photo by Quinn Wharton)

 

Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo's Tamara Toumanova with travelling companion

 

New York City Ballet's Joaquin De Luz gets an earful

 

Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo's Hélène Kirsova weighs up her options

 

Retired British ballerina walks one of her many dogs

 

Umm ...

 

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