It was a delectable journey into high art as the Mariinsky Ballet let loose its four-act Swan Lake at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts this afternoon. [...]
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22 December 2011 
You live or die in front of an audience like this — London schoolkids watching a lecture demonstration of Swan Lake. Because unlike adults they don’t fake being interested. [...] 21 December 2011 
Photo show how Swan Lake is coached by the great Royal Ballet prima ballerina, Svetlana Beriosova. [...] 5 September 2011 
Chico Marx famously queried: “Why a duck?” We rather wonder, “Why a swan?” [...] 9 March 2011 Like many composers, Tchaikovsky recycled his own music, and the music in the opera duet from “Undina” is startlingly close to Swan Lake’s Act II pas de deux. Interestingly, both stories are about ethereal creatures who end up under water. It just shows how the two mediums of opera and ballet can cross over intriguingly. [...] 1 February 2011 
The first to sell out the spanking new Valley Performing Arts Center is a little known, highly conservative Russian ballet company bringing its “Swan Lake” to the home town of BLACK SWAN. [...] 29 December 2010 
He undertook to teach me how to dance Odile: “Dance as if you wanted to seduce me.” At this point, I lost patience. “I haven’t the slightest desire to do that to you,” I said, and walked off the set. I refused point-blank to go back on — let others work with this blockhead.” [...] 29 November 2010 
Seconds into Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller BLACK SWAN, the hyperkinetic camera zooms in on a pink pointe shoe. A woman is dancing, but we don’t see her. We see only the impeccable chop-chop of her shoes. It’s a smart directorial move. Cinephiles and foot fetishists are primed for a good time, but dance lovers’ hearts may sink. [...] |
       gered mankowitz, photog, 1967      “the red danube” (1949)   |
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