Swan Lake: Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet

by Barbara Newman, Leslie E. Spatt

In the autumn of 1982, the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet proudly unveiled a new production of Swan Lake, the best known and best loved ballet in the world. This book documents the evolution of that production, week by week and step by step. It escorts you through the stage door, behind the footlights, and into the world of artistic choices, crises and creativity that the public never sees.

Genres: Nonfiction

143 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

Reviews

[Marie-Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recommend reading for all non-professional dancers participating in a large scale ballet production. A great behind the scenes look at what it takes, not only form the dancers, but costumers, set designers, shoes, head pieces, choreography. How it is normal for many changes to occur as a production is mounted, to figure out what works and what does not.