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Article: Swan Lake.
- Article from:
- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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Revivals of Swan Lake have increasingly invested Prince Siegfried with a full range of psychological maladies--oedipal complexes, depression, neuroses. Directors have tried earnestly to make him contemporary and accessible, never minding the matter of his dalliance with a swan. Outdoing them all is British choreographer Matthew Bourne's 1995 version for his Adventures in Motion Pictures company. Reinventing the ballet, he situates this hapless prince in an all-too-familiar dysfunctional monarchy. To top things off, the Swan and its retihue are danced by men. Anyone who missed this Swan Lake in London or Los Angeles may now see it on Great Performances on many PBS ...
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