NEW YORK — How seriously should we take “Swan Lake”? It features a virtuous but wronged heroine, Odette, and her sophisticated nemesis, Odile, two roles generally played by one ballerina. White Swan ...

Beautiful clarinet music filled the Citizens Opera House on opening night of Boston Ballet’s “Swan Lake,” welcoming patrons back to the story just three years after the ballet was last performed by ...

The swan is perhaps the animal most frequently associated with ballet. In fluffy white tutus and pink pointe shoes, ballerinas glide across the stage like swans floating on a lake. Of course, the swan ...

Under a façade of elegance and grace, it’s hard work being a swan. That duality is something first-year Charlotte Ballet dancer Evelyn Robinson is working to perfect. She’s doing it through rigorous ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rehearsing “Swan Lake” a few weeks ago in a sweaty studio, trying to iron out some last-minute kinks, ballerina Unity Phelan stopped just before launching into the famed 32 fouettés — ...

Around a table in the book-lined library at Pacific Northwest Ballet, a group of swans and princes are talking. The topic of that conversation: “Swan Lake,” the classic, tragic 19th-century story ...

Their extensive North American tour, managed by Classical Arts Entertainment, began in October 2025 and will end in May 2026. The cast of more than 40 dancers is accompanied by a large staff who ...

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NEW YORK – Rehearsing “Swan Lake” a few weeks ago in a sweaty studio, trying to iron out some last-minute kinks, ballerina Unity Phelan stopped just before launching into the famed 32 fouettés — those ...