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Matthew Bourne on Swan Lake 30 years on

Deborah Weiss, 6th November

Sir Matthew Bourne talks about his passion for storytelling in dance, and his own personal journey with his radical gender-flipped Swan Lake.

BRB's Swan Lake: A Picture Guide

Deborah Weiss, 10th February

Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake is on tour until April, bringing classic opulence to multiple venues across the country.

Stepping into Tchaikovsky's Ballets: Swan Lake

Mark Pullinger, 23rd July

Ask anyone who claims to know nothing about ballet to actually name one, the chances are it will be one of Tchaikovsky's, with Swan Lake high on the list.

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The new Royal Ballet season opens with some old magic

Hanna Weibye, 8th October

Swan Lake is so iconic that describing it in a review seems superfluous. The idea of it, moreover, so dominates people’s perceptions of ballet, mine included, that before Monday night’s performance I was worried that I would be lost for fresh words, silenced by the weight Tchaikovsky and Petipa’s swans have acquired in the 117 years since they first fluttered across the stage in St Petersburg.

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