Swan Lake (and Snowflake #9)

[smallhobbit]

Last Friday I went up to London to see the latest production of New Adventures (Sir Matthew Bourne's company) Swan Lake.  It was excellent.  It's impossible for me to pinpoint exactly what it was which made it so good, but it was a combination of the dancing (as wonderful as ever), the story, the music, the costumes and the scenery.  The characters come over so clearly and really convincingly.  I last saw this in December 2018 and if anything I enjoyed it even more this time.

Normally J comes with me to these performances, but this time he didn't, since he'd already seen it once.  I wasn't daunted by already knowing how things worked out (and in fact I'd forgotten some of the smaller points) so went ahead on my own.  And six years later with a different cast it still had real power and maybe because it wasn't so strange as the first time I'd seen it (over the years I had seen a good number of classical versions) maybe why I did enjoy it more.

   



And, because the challenge for Snowflake #9 was to create a fanwork, I wrote a ficlet: Swan Lake

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

So glad you had a good time!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[adafrog]

Cool picture.

[smallhobbit]

Indeed. I need to get a poster of it.

[rusty_armour]

Hi there! I apologize for responding to this entry about a month after you posted it. Work did get crazy in January, but I have no real excuse for February besides laziness -- possibly brought on by a case of the winter blues. I've become neglectful about checking LJ and Dreamwidth as I don't post as much as I used to. Anywaaaaay, end of excuses.

I'm glad that this was such a good production of Swan Lake. I would imagine that watching this version for the second time would be rewarding as you could pick up on some of the finer details that you might have missed the first time you watched it. As you said, you can focus less on the novelty of the production and appreciate the individual performances more.

[smallhobbit]

It was well worth seeing again, and I ended up with quite a different sense of the story which was also good. Plus seeing different dancers in the roles was also very interesting as each brings something of their own qualities to it.