ST. PÖLTEN/ Europaballett: Swan Lake, revisited: June 28th, 2024 (Europa Ballett, St. Pölten)
:I do not believe in coincidences and these last weeks of the 2023/24 Season in Vienna made me occupy myself intensely with Swan Lake. A good thing that I had not done in years. The main focus, the emphasis used in different versions means enough material to analyze and study for years – going from Petipas, who created this most Russian of ballets to my preferred versions by Ashton, and Robert Helpmann. From the revolutionary Matthew Bourne’s adaptation to the not-well-succeeded Nureyev’s egocentric „Siegfried’s Lake“…
attitude – dance-platform. Ricardo Leitner