Swan Lake — Striving to Reconstruct a Ballet Classic
July 14, 2010 — “For of all the classics, Swan Lake –
the most immortal in imagery — is the most corruptible
in choreography, the most fragile and most lost in
history, its origins chequered and fractured, and its
history long tainted by politics,” writes Ismene Brown
at The Arts Desk.
“But there is slowly evolving in the ballet world a new, tentative interest in ballet history, and the visits to London this month by the Mikhailovsky Ballet from St Petersburg and the great Bolshoi Ballet from Moscow bring us two particularly intriguing attempts to ‘reconstruct’ landmark versions of Swan Lake and Coppélia.”
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