In 1989, the creators of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” stole a page from the “Swan Lake” book when they had Ursula attempt to stop Ariel’s marriage to Prince Eric by arriving at the castle in the form ...

Swan Lake has all the elements of a modern-day binge-able series: young, scantily dressed women, a winged sorcerer, an evil stepmother, a handsome prince, a double suicide.

My not-quite-3-year-old is pointing at the faces of dancing cygnets in her “Swan Lake” book. ... parents can open conversations about race with their children is through reading diverse books.

Somewhere over the last 145 years, there was a collective, pop-cultural agreement that Swan Lake is ballet. The Nutcracker is ballet, too, but it’s Christmas ballet and is restrained by strict ...

Unity Phelan rehearses for her role as Swan Queen in New York City Ballet's Swan Lake, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in New York. Credit: AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson By The Associated Press March 12, 2025 ...

For the record, I’ve never seen the Swan Lake Ballet or read the book, or heard about the story. Coming into this experience I was almost blindsided.

Around a table in the book-lined library at Pacific Northwest Ballet, a group of swans and princes are talking. The topic of that conversation: “Swan Lake,” the classic, tragic 19th-century ...

National Ballet of Canada’s sumptuously tragic new Swan Lake debuted Friday at the Four Seasons Centre after more than three years of preening. Karen Kain directed and staged the Russian classic ...