There’s a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky‘s Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take ‘Swan Lake,’ the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they’re turning not just 32 fouettes – but double or triple pirouettes.

I’ve developed into quite a swan. I’m one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older – until I drop dead of beauty.

You cannot dance an arabesque in ‘Swan Lake’ and ‘Nutcracker’ the same way.

I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.