9 Reasons Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside Are 100% #BestieGoals

January 14, 2018

It is a great tragedy for dance history that iconic ballet partnerships like Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev or Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov weren’t able to document their backstage shenanigans on social media. (Okay, maybe not a great tragedy, but you have to admit that you’re curious.)

Lucky for us, that isn’t the case with today’s star dancers—like American Ballet Theatre principal dancers Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside, aka The Cindies. These two aren’t just onstage partners. They’re serious #BestieGoals. Our evidence, as documented on Instagram, is as follows:

And they’re super supportive of each other, like when James tagged along to see Bella’s debut with Paris Opéra Ballet.