![]() ![]() Which is why, in part, director Darren Aronofsky was inspired to create his blockbuster film, Black Swan, based on this ballet. Sorcery, spells, transformation, human-swan hybrids, and other dualities and duplicities drive the tale. Infused with dark magic through and through, the tale of Odette and Siegfried’s star-crossed love is full of tropes from the days of Merlin and King Arthur, as well as imagery in our contemporary genres of fantasy film, TV, games, and literature. ![]() The ballet’s narrative is, itself, captivating. (An earlier production, The Lake of the Swans, premiered in 1877, with choreography by Julius Reisinger, and was quickly retired.) To what does the iconic romantic ballet, Swan Lake, owe its mystique? The “most imperfect but powerful of all Russian ballets,” as Jennifer Homans describes the work in her immensely readable new ballet history, Apollo’s Angels, Swan Lake has been transfixing generations of balletomanes (and the uninitiated or indifferent guests they happen to drag along) since choreographers Petipa and Ivanov‘s production (to Tchaikovsky’s music) premiered in St. ![]() 1Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures 2Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 3Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 4Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 5Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 6Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 7Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 8Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 9Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures ![]()
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