REPORTS of fugitive ostriches (or perhaps a rhea?) at large in South Ayrshire prompted Gordon Jarvie to revisit memories of Swan Lake, in the grounds of Culzean Castle – a lovely spot which will ...

Swan Lake is probably the most exceptional phenomenon in all classical ballet literature. With its nonpareil beauty, dreamy poetry, seductive magic and romantic imagery, it braids the fairy tale ...

English National Ballet has long danced the popular classics, and with its in-the-round Swan Lake it continues in spectacular ... more of a pageant than a poem. At last night’s opening night ...

But to avoid predictability she also creates the unexpected moment of softness in the poem “Swan Lake,” “[t]he night swells around us./Our voices, tense with lightening,/ create a new silence.” ...

Such a frank display of power leavened with poetry accounts for much of “Swan Lake’s” enduring appeal. Yet the signature feature of the Washington Ballet’s poignant, visually striking ...