dirac Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 The Australian Ballet's 2023 season features a new production of "Swan Lake." Quote David Hallberg’s production will also work as a symbolic tribute to the very first show staged by the company, in 1962. “We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel, but show audiences why this is the most famous ballet in the world,” he told AAP. Link to comment
dirac Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 Artistic directors talk about how they approach "Swan Lake." Quote To start, no one wants their Swan Lake to be too different. Different isn’t the goal – maybe embellished, maybe stripped down, and maybe exaggerated, but never completely changed. Julie Kent put it best – “it’s like everyone is playing a game of telephone.” There are many theories and variations surrounding the origins of Swan Lake and the story it follows. Some say it’s interpreted from a folktale called “The Stolen Veil.” Most are familiar with it as a story of a woman, Odette, cursed to live life as a swan during the day and a woman at night by the evil sorcerer, Von Rothbart. She falls in love with a prince, Siegfried, who betrays her by proposing to the wrong, similar-looking woman, Odile. Everyone dies, of course. In order to create a new production of this old ballet, many choreographers look to the past and parse through the decades and decades and decades of notes for inspiration. Link to comment
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