At its heart, Swan Lake has always been about birds ... Soon enough, the evil Rothbart (Peng-Fei Jiang) captures Odette in his enormous wings, black but tinged with an oil slick of purples ...

The National Ballet of China’s Swan Lake is at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre from Wednesday to next Saturday (February 27 to March 2). Style and arts editor/writer Janet Smith has spent more ...

Sit back and relax with our pick of the best small-screen entertainment, from Gavin & Stacey, Wallace & Gromit and Doctor Who to hilarious opera, little fish and Swan Lake. Si King looks back on ...

Moments ago, she was sitting still, watching National Ballet of Canada principal dancer Tina Pereira rehearse a pas de deux for Ms. Kain’s new staging of Swan Lake. But Tchaikovsky’s music ...

And the company made the first act’s waltz and polonaise and the third act’s national dances look fresh and important. There’s no easy resolution to this “Swan Lake.” For the final act ...

national.ballet.ca or 416-345-9595 The cheering erupted even before the curtain rose on Saturday afternoon’s opening performance of the National Ballet of Canada’s “Swan Lake.” Michael ...

Look a little closer, though, and something is different. Each swan has an individuality that’s unusual in “Swan Lake,” a ballet in which the corps de ballet typically strives for absolute ...