Swan Lake - various productions that you have seen?
Hi everyone.
The recent discussion on the upcoming new RB production of Swan Lake has set me thinking about how most people consider Sir Frederick Ashton to be the greatest choreographer and how his additions to Swan Lake are considered to be the best? I just wondered why that was?
So I would like to open the discussion to ask you all, why you think that the Ashton additions to Swan Lake are better and what RB Swan Lakes has everybody seen and what is your opinions on the
This has been, in fact quite common, to have different dancers performing the parts of Odette and Odile, sometimesit was due to the fact that the more accomplished dancer of the two was unable to do the fouettes. The fouettes, by the way, aren't strictly speaking obligatory, as some of the greatest dancers of the past demonstrated.