Theatre Royal,Glasgow
Scottish Ballet’s daring new interpretation boots out the main characters – leaving just a moody boy and a magical womanAmong the legions of choreographers who’ve reimagined Swan Lake, the tendency has always been to vamp up the fable. Over time the ballet has been flipped from its original gothic setting into Nazi Germany or a Paris ballet studio; it’s been psychologised into an Oedipal savor fable; it’s been politicised into a fable approximately homophobia. By comparison, and David Dawson’s new version for Scottish Ballet looks like a model of chastity,as the choreographer attempts to strip away the layers of past productions and reduce the ballet to its emotional and musical essence. All but the main characters gain been removed from the plot – there is no scheming queen to bully the weltschmerz-ridden prince into marriage, nor even a Von Rothbart to imprison Odette with his evil spell.
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Source: theguardian.com