Choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne has spoken about the risk he took almost 30 years ago in reimagining Swan Lake with an all-male cast – a production now widely billed as the most successful dance theatre production of all time.
“The idea of male swans just seemed to be that thing which captured my imagination, and then eventually seemed to capture everyone else’s,” he told The Independent’s Editor-in-Chief Geordie Greig.
“It was a bit scary at the time, sticking my neck out and doing something different with a piece that was so hallowed.”
As part of Latitude’s 20th anniversary celebrations, Bourne’s New Adventures will take over the Waterfront Stage, performing an excerpt from Swan Lake featuring two of the company’s stars.
Matthew Bourne’s audacious reinvention of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago and has since become the most successful dance theatre production of all time.
Thrilling, bold, witty and emotive, Matthew Bourne’s genre-defining Swan Lake is still best known for replacing the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble, which shattered convention, turning tradition on its head.
Don’t miss it on our Waterfront Stage on the Sunday of Klarna presents Latitude.
