Royal Ballet: Swan Lake, LondonSwan Lake has been central to the Royal repertory, ever since the company was the fledgling Vic-Wells Ballet and could barely muster a full-size corps. Its current production, first staged by Anthony Dowell in 1987, may be showing its age slightly, but the text of the 1895 Petipa-Ivanov choreography, complete with all its athletic and theatrical tragedy, is beautifully and, as ever, app…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on February 4, 2011