ABT's Swan Lake: Lessons of the Heart.(American Ballet Theater)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: March 1, 2000| Author: ROCA, OCTAVIO | Copyright information

DETAILS ARE everything, and little things mean a lot when it comes to ballet.

Take one moment among many at the heart of Swan Lake, Odette's heartbreaking lakeside narration in-Act Two when she reveals to Prince Siegfried that she was not always what she now seems, that she once was a happy young woman.

Even if some of the scene's pantomime is irretrievably lost ... say, Odette's explanation that her mother was a good fairy or the libretto's original intimati...

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