'It was a shock to many': Matthew Bourne on his Swan Lake with male …
Nov 27, 2024 · They're a tribute to choreographer Matthew Bourne's gender-flipping dance version of the ballet Swan Lake. The production, which first premiered in London in November …
Swan Lake (Bourne) - Wikipedia
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is a contemporary ballet based on the Russian romantic work Swan Lake, from which it takes the music by Tchaikovsky and the broad outline of the plot. Bourne 's …
Matthew Bourne’s ‘Swan Lake’ Is All Male - The New York Times
Oct 8, 2010 · Instead he provided a corps de ballet of bare-chested, aggressive, sexually alluring male swans, and a repressed, sensitive-soul prince who falls in love with their leader.
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake: Of Swans and Men - CriticalDance
Feb 2, 2020 · But in a dazzling portrayal in every sense of the word, Ball, a Principal with the Royal Ballet (who first came to international attention in 2018 when he replaced an injured …
Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’
Jan 30, 2020 · In “Swan Lake,” an evil magician transforms a beautiful princess into a graceful swan, an image now intimately linked to the idea of classical ballet itself. When Matthew …
An evening not to be missed: Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Dec 13, 2024 · Before he turned his attention to Swan Lake, Matthew Bourne had long been making work that poked fun at classical ballet’s conventions, more often than not putting men …
Review: Why Matthew Bourne's male 'Swan Lake' is still radical …
Dec 6, 2019 · Male swans in “Swan Lake.” That’s all it took in 1995 for director and choreographer Matthew Bourne to create a firestorm of outrage and acclaim in the uptight London dance world.
Changing their feathers: Male lead Swan Lake went from controversial …
Feb 21, 2019 · Choreographer Matthew Bourne made headlines in the mid-1990s by reimagining the elegant female swans beloved by traditional ballet audiences worldwide as an all-male …
Swan Lake review: Matthew Bourne’s landmark all-male ‘Swan Lake…
Oct 14, 2024 · For the London run, Bourne has scored a coup: the young Royal Ballet principal Matthew Ball plays the Swan. Muscular torso on display, Ball’s gorgeous technique and RPatz …
Matthew Bourne interview: Swan Lake (The Observer) - West End …
Nov 11, 2024 · These men are the stars of the latest revival of Bourne’s Swan Lake, a show that not only changed the face of British dance – the swans, always danced by women in …