Research Guides: Visions & Voices: Swan Lake : Home

The Australian Ballet: Swan Lake

Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center

Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake performed by The Australian Ballet

Music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and performed by Orchestra Victoria

Saturday, October 11, 2014 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

The Australian Ballet (September 25, 2014) Swan Lake-Tragic Beauty. http://youtu.be/MnZHhLsxP3k

About Swan Lake

“Join Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center for an evening with the Australian Ballet. Founded in 1962, the internationally renowned company showcases exceptional dancers who embody athleticism, emotion and prowess. They will perform Tchaikovsky's legendary Swan Lake (1875-76). Fashioned from Russian folktales, the story follows Odette, a princess turned into a swan by a sorcerer’s curse, on her quest to break the spell. Come for an evening of magic, deception, romance and classic beauty.” - Visions & Voices Event Description

The Music Center Performances Magazine featuring Swan Lake, (pg.5, 2014).

Motion Picture & Videos to Checkout

Black swan (Motion picture) by Director Darren Aronofsky
Call Number: LVYDVD 5213
ISBN: 02454371506180
Publication Date: 2011

Located in Leavey Library

Nina is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: new dancer Lily, who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan.
Swan lake [videorecording] by Bourne, Matthew
Call Number: MUSDVD 51
Publication Date: 1996

Located in the Music Library

Matthew Bourne's re-imagining of the Swan Lake tale, with a chorus of male swans, tells the story of an unloved prince, a cold, heartless mother, an unsuitable girlfriend and a flock of menacing and mysterious swans, led by a haunting and sinister figure - the swan of the prince's dreams.
Swan lake [videorecording] : Tchaikovsky's complete ballet performed by the Kirov Ballet and the Leningrad Philharmonic by Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Lebedinoe ozero
Call Number: MUSDVD 13
ISBN: 0769714757
Publication Date: 2000

Located in the Music Library

Regarded as the greatest of all the classical ballets, this spectacular production was filmed live in Russia at the Maryinsky Theater featuring the Kirov Ballet. Tchaikovsky's score, the first in his trimvirate of ballets, is the perfect compliment to this classic.

Books to Checkout

Symbolism in nineteenth-century ballet : Giselle, Coppélia, the Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake by Fleming-Markarian, Margaret
Call Number: GV1787.F55 2012
Publication Date: 2012

Located in Doheny Memorial Library
Swan lake : the story of Prince Siegfried and the Swan Queen by Jiřincová, Ludmila
Call Number: PZ8 .S972
Publication Date: 1968

Located in the Grand Depository

A retelling of the legend about the Swan Queen, Odette, differing from the version made famous by the ballet in that Prince Siegfried frees her from the magician's spell.
Tchaikovsky's ballets : Swan lake, Sleeping beauty, Nutcracker / Roland John Wiley. by Wiley, Roland John.
Call Number: ML410.C4 W53 1985
Publication Date: 1985

Subject Guide

Melissa Miller

Email Me

Contact:

Dr. Melissa L. Miller
Head, Hoose Library of Philosophy / Humanities Librarian
Subject Specialist for: Philosophy, Religion, Anthropology, History of Science and Technology, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature

Office hours: By appointment only
Email: millerm@usc.edu

Subjects:Philosophy & Religion, Sociology & Anthropology

Events

Australian Ballet: Swan Lake: https://www.usc.edu/calendar/event/909912

Saturday, 10/11/2014 5:45PM

Off Campus

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited and advance registration is required. Check-in for the event will begin at 5 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 5:45 p.m. and return to campus at 11 p.m. Dinner will be provided at check-in.