Scottish Ballet: David Dawson's Swan Lake is supremely moving

Bruno Micchiardi as Siegfried and Sophie Martin as Odette in David Dawson's Swan Lake

Scottish Ballet in David Dawson's Swan Lake

Sophie Martin as Odile and Bruno Micchiardi as Siegfried with Scottish Ballet in Swan Lake

Bruno Micchiardi as Siegfried and Sophie Martin as Odette in David Dawson's Swan Lake

By Kathy Elgin, 09 April 2024

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“Sinuous and elegant, stretching and melting, at once surrendering and dominating”

Reviewed at Theatre Royal, Glasgow on 4 April 2024

Swan Lake (Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, David Dawson)

Scottish Ballet

John Otto, Set Designer

Yumiko Takeshima, Costume Designer

Bert Dalhuysen, Lighting Designer

Bruno Micchiardi, Dancer

Sophie Martin, Dancer

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Kathy Elgin

After a career in publishing, Kathy Elgin turned her enthusiasm for dance into a real job by joining the late, great John Percival, Dance Critic of The Times, in his re-launch of Dance and Dancers magazine in 1981. She was later delighted to join its rival, The Dancing Times, as Scottish correspondent until the magazine’s sad demise in 2022. She lives in Edinburgh.