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
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Black swan (Motion picture) by Call Number: LVYDVD 5213ISBN: 02454371506180Publication Date: 2011Located 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 Call Number: MUSDVD 51Publication Date: 1996Located 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 Call Number: MUSDVD 13ISBN: 0769714757Publication Date: 2000Located 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
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Symbolism in nineteenth-century ballet : Giselle, Coppélia, the Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake by Call Number: GV1787.F55 2012Publication Date: 2012Located in Doheny Memorial Library -
Swan lake : the story of Prince Siegfried and the Swan Queen byCall Number: PZ8 .S972Publication Date: 1968Located 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. byCall Number: ML410.C4 W53 1985Publication Date: 1985
Subject Guide
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Events
Australian Ballet: Swan Lake: https://www.usc.edu/calendar/event/909912
Swan Lake in Scholarly Literature
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Queer Swans: Those Fabulous Avians in the Swan LakeS of Les Ballets Trockadero and Matthew BourneIn Dance Chronicle, Volume 31, Issue 1, 2008
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The Ballet Called ‘Siegfried’: the Enigmatic Prince of Swan Lake by Sporton, GregoryIn New Theatre Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 3, 2008
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Nietzsche and the Total Experience of Black Swan by A. Andreas Wansbrough in ProQuest CentralIn Philosophy Study, ISSN 2159-5313
June 2013, Vol. 3, No. 6, 538-543 -
A View From the Interior by Oatley, Keith; Niemiec, Ryan M.In PsycCRITIQUES, Volume 56, Issue 17, 2011
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