Article: The Pennsylvania Ballet.(Swan Lake)(Dance Review)

THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ACADEMY OF MUSIC PHILADELPHIA, PA JUNE 4-13, 2004

Like that notorious little girl with the curl, when Christopher Wheeldon's new staging of Swan Lake is good, it's very, very good, but when it's bad, it's horrid. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, the company and its artistic director, Roy Kaiser, splashed out with an act of wild conservatism. It was conservative because any production of Swan Lake is, at least on paper, a sale bet, and wild because it entrusted the entire million-dollar-plus production to America's most acclaimed young choreographer, who had had virtually no experience (of preconceptions) in mounting a ...

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