After Swan Lake, he turned his attention to a much cheerier story, and although the plot of The Sleeping Beauty, one of the best ballet music scores, does not have the ambiguity or complexity of ...

Masilo built a reputation as a fearless choreographer who deconstructed ballet classics and fused ... by Camille Saint-Saëns’s “The Dying Swan.” It was a tribute to an aunt who had died ...

this all-male ballet company has been spoofing the high-brow artform. Once you look past the slapstick antics — their spin on “The Dying Swan” is a riot — and the fictitious artist’s ...

Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between 1875 and 1876, it tells the story of Prince Siegfried, who falls in love with Princess Odette, who is turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart.