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Eggs for Ballet

Schwanen Trilogie
Darrel Toulon
Handlungsballett
Graz Opera, Austria, 2009


[...] The stage is all dark as huge eggs are rolled in. From the eggs emerge dancers as swans born adult. [...

[...] The three stories chosen by Toulon include Leda and the Swan, where Zeus comes to Leda in the form of a swan and ravishes her.
A Finish fairy tale, Lemminkäinen in Tuonela, tells the story of Lemminkäinen seeking the hand of a swan maiden (Sibelius, Lemminkäinen in Tuonela).
Finally, Toulon approaches ballet’s mountain in Swan terms – Odette/Odile (Swan Lake, Tschaikowsky). [...]

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