There are so many swans in English National Ballet’s tutu-tacular Swan Lake. The corps de ballet swells to 60 ballerinas in Derek Deane’s large-scale production originally created for the Royal Albert Hall in 1997.
Their circling unity is impressive – arms flapping, heads tilted, faces solemn. In Tchaikovsky’s 19th century classic, they build a tsunami of femininity in extremis, falling to the floor in teardrop formation, spotting the stage with snow-white tulle.
