#Red swan fantasy art Patch
"Swan Lake" was the composer's first ballet score its music is haunting and evocative but does not have the coherence of his later "Sleeping Beauty" and "Nutcracker." Most choreographers patch it with bits of other Tchaikovsky works to round out their productions. Mostly, the Stanislavsky reading would seem to work against the narrative structure of the Tchaikovsky score, with its premonitions of doom and tragic close. (What has come to be the "traditional" version is that of the 1895 revival by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.) There are almost as many different "Swan Lakes" as there have been Swans who've danced it.īeginning Tuesday at the Kennedy Center, Moscow's Stanislavsky Ballet performs its own controversial production, marked by an explanatory prologue, refigured choreography, what it terms "dramatic truth" - and a happy ending.Īll of this seems to run counter to the folk tale from which the ballet arose (though historians can agree on no authoritative source) and the original 1877 production for the Bolshoi Theater, whose steps have long since been lost. "Swan Lake," the tale of a prince, a swan and row upon row of stiff white tutus, is the universal symbol of ballet, a timeless emblem of the art.Īnd yet, though the ballet is more than a century old, is found in the repertoire of nearly every ballet company with enough dancers and is a benchmark of ballerina excellence, there exists no definitive version. But in the dance world, avian Eros has become the most enduring of icons. In any other context, the story of a young man in love with a bird would appeal not to the heart but to the gag reflex.
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