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Article: NEW YORK CITY BALLET: SWAN LAKE.(Review)
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- Dance Magazine
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- August 1, 1999
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NEW YORK CITY BALLET: SWAN JAKE APRIL 29-MAY 9, 1999 NEW YORK STATE THEATER
Of all the ballets in the classic repertory only Giselle commands the same reverence as Swan Lake, and even Giselle is not so readily associated with ballet in the public consciousness as is Swan Lake. Would it, for example, have struck such a Broadway chord if dance iconoclast Matthew Bourne, instead of transgendering those Swans, had come up with the idea of male Wilis (called Willies, perhaps) saving Albrecht from a death worse than fate? I doubt it.
This raises the question: what is Swan Lake? In a way this is a harder question to answer than what is Giselle, and far, far ...