Anna Pavlova in costume for The Dying Swan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, c. 1928
Choreographer
Mikhail Fokine
Music
Camille Saint-Saëns, (Le cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux)
Premiere
1907 St. Petersburg, Russia
Created for
Anna Pavlova
Genre
Romantic
Type
Classical ballet
The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova, who performed it about 4,000 times. The short ballet (four minutes) follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905. The ballet has since influenced modern interpretations of Odette in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and has inspired non-traditional interpretations as well as various adaptations.
lose, he makes a swan-like end, / Fading in music." Similarly, in Othello, thedying Emilia exclaims, "I will play theswan, / And die in music." A madrigal...
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taught Marianela Núñez the steps of TheDyingSwan as Michel Fokine choreographed for Anna Pavlova in 1907. She has also taught at the Ballet Rambert, and...
prima ballerina assoluta, Alicia Markova, who sat for Alicia Markova "TheDyingSwan", that she was his most stimulating sitter. In 1973, Tretchikoff published...
Guild Awards: as the lead actress in the television film When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story and as part of the cast of Black Swan. She also reunited...
Hitchcock's 1927 silent film The Lodger, and again in 2002 the BFI had Talbot write a piano trio to accompany Evgenii Bauer's TheDyingSwan (1917). Concert works...
Gran Turismo 7. "Le cygne" is often known as TheDyingSwan, after a poem by Tennyson. Inspired by swans that she had seen in public parks, Anna Pavlova...
From Around the World Perform "TheDyingSwan" for COVID-19 Relief". Dance Magazine. May 6, 2020. "Please Enjoy the Quarantine Genius of "Swan Lake Bath...
Kitri in Don Quixote, Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, and TheDyingSwan, first danced as a pre-graduate student under the guidance of Sulamith Messerer. A fellow...
Pon-Su-San died in Johannesburg on 14 June 2017. Red Jacket Alicia Markova "TheDyingSwan" Boris Gorelik (2013). Incredible Tretchikoff. Art / Books. ISBN 978-1-908970-08-4...
phone to record an interpretive performance of TheDyingSwan by Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma. Jonze uploaded the video to YouTube and as of November 2015, it...
Giselle, as well as for TheDyingSwan and Les Sylphides. During the Second World War she re-formed Les Ballets Russes in the United States and appeared...
Dramatically Limp 'Swan Lake'". New York Times. Retrieved April 15, 2020. "32 Ballerinas From Around the World Perform "TheDyingSwan" for COVID-19 Relief"...
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at the age of four, and became known as "the smallest skater in the Soviet Union". A 1962 televised version of TheDyingSwan brought her to the attention...
dedicated to the 15th anniversary of Ballet Magazine, Barsukova performed along with the stars of the theater. She performed her "DyingSwan" ball routine...
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fundraiser, Swans for Relief, which compiled videos made in May 2020 by 32 ballerinas from 14 countries, including Copeland, dancing TheDyingSwan. The resulting...
and The Firebird. One of his most famous works was TheDyingSwan, performed by Anna Pavlova. Beyond her talents as a ballerina, Pavlova had the theatrical...
with a frying pan during his performance of TheDyingSwan ballet. Edmondson mentioned backstage that it was the first time in eight years they had done something...