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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS ... IT WAS NOT A CITY OF ORLANDO. LAKE EOLA PARK, SWAN. WE MAKE SURE THAT OUR SWANS ARE PINIONED AND THEIR WINGS ARE CLIPPED. THAT’S TO BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW.

And in her “Swan Lake” debut, Nadon’s rich dancing was full of details and imaginative nuance; straightening her arms overhead like raised wings, she seemed to grow taller. Falling backward ...