![]() So I guess that means I have to back off a bit on my opinion that Siegfried is a dick. But Leta Biasucci’s swans felt like honesty against coquetry, and Odile’s fouettés were so mesmerizing that I kind of forgot about Odette for a minute. I’ve always thought of Odette as languorous elegance and Odile as sharp chicness. I don’t want to do a full review, but I do want to note a few impressions from this particular performance. You will see the precise uniformity of four little swans and be swept away by the powerful music. You will always get to see a ballerina fly like a bird across the stage in a lift that looks effortless and portray two very different women simply through movement. Unlike a Marvel movie, where you never know when they’re going to spoil a great character with a stupid backstory, Swan Lake will always be beautiful. When the familiar is Swan Lake, and the cast in question belongs to PNB, you don’t have to worry about being disappointed. ![]() You’re watching to see how this cast in this production on this night interprets and expresses the familiar. Like Disney movies, you already know how it’s going to end. The Comfort of ClassicsĪs much as I love the surprise of innovation and the spark of excitement when a performance makes you think, “Is that even ballet?” the classics are a form of comfort food.Įxcept for that teen sitting behind me, no one watches a story ballet to find out what happens. Then throw in the late seating of two busloads of high school students on an arts field trip, and it’s easy to swear off live performances in favor of the comfort of streaming K-dramas at home forever. Two years of indulging my extreme introversion has not made dealing with crowds easier, and masks still give me claustrophobia. I dislike driving at the best of times, but a season of virtual arts events has not improved my ability to navigate the kind of crazy traffic you face heading toward Seattle Center in the evening. The last couple of years have been hard for everyone, and for some people (me) “getting back to normal” is even harder. Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Leta Biasucci and Kyle Davis with company dancers in Kent Stowell’s Swan Lake, on stage April 15 – 24, and streaming digitally May 12 – 16, 2022. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have anything to say about it. I’m not going to do a full review because I’ve done that before, and except for the person sitting behind me who told his friends, “I didn’t look at the booklet, like at all, because I didn’t want any spoilers,” I think most people have a pretty good idea what to expect anyway. So by way of introduction let me start by saying that if you are only going to see one ballet in your lifetime, it should probably be Swan Lake, and Pacific Northwest Ballet is one of the best places to see it. The ballet Swan Lake needs no introduction.
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