Ballet star David Hallberg prepares in his dressing room before his performance of Black Swan with the Bolshoi Ballet Company at Lincoln Center
Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos
For the latest edition of “Life in Pictures,” photographer Christopher Anderson followed the 32-year-old American Ballet Theatre dancer on July 19 as he prepared to perform Swan Lake at Lincoln Center with the Bolshoi (where he’s also a principal). Click through the gallery ahead to see his pre-performance plank ritual, his favorite diner, and the shoes he sews himself.
* This article appears in the July 28, 2014, issue of New York Magazine.