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Ratmansky's staging is more than a reconstruction. It's a staging that's moving and joyful in its own right.

Not all choreographers take on a gruelling tabletop assignment before defining the movements of a performance. Yet to reconstruct the 1895 Mariinsky Theatre production of Swan Lake, Alexei Ratmansky did just that.