Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company ... as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who ...

Choreographer Matthew Bourne ruffled a few feathers when he first brought his production of "Swan Lake" to Los Angeles in 1997. Bourne’s staging of the classical ballet casts male dancers as the ...

Rehearsing “Swan Lake” a few weeks ago in a sweaty studio, trying to iron out some last-minute kinks, ballerina Unity Phelan ...

Dressed in graceful white tutus, the male teachers transformed into "White Swans," blending humor with impressive ballet movements that filled ... Eventually, the concept of a charming 'White Swan' ...

She said she never saw herself as a great turner, or able to master some of the Black Swan’s tricky footwork. “It has every single ballet step in the book,” Miller says of the iconic ballet.