Carlos Acosta will present online an adaptation of The Death of the Swan

April 5, 2020

The director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, Carlos Acosta, announced that he will present online an adaptation of The Dying Swan, an iconic piece created by Mikhail Fokine for Ana Pavlova.

According to several historians, the work becomes the most exquisite choreographic miniature of the early twentieth century and demands one of the most complex and complete interpretations, due to the fragility and verisimilitude of its sole character.

The poetic image of the wounded swan that agonizes and dies transcended thanks to the creator's ingenuity and the spirituality of its first dancer, and for decades numerous creators have succumbed to the temptation of creating versions of this classic.

Frankly, I don't know how it will turn out. We are going to present for you one of my favorite pieces. I have changed the ending on purpose, so this is a dance about life, about hope; the Cuban director, dancer and choreographer stated.

Acosta, who was a star of the Royal Ballet of London, defined the new project as an experiment they are conducting amid the isolation imposed by the expansion of COVID-19 in Great Britain.

This is a dance of promises, it represents the end of something and the beginning of another thing, and in these crazy times in which we all live we need a new beginning, he asserted.

The piece will be viewable from April 8th, at 3:00 p.m. local time, as part of the digital art festival Culture in Quarantine, and from this date on the company will transmit online content, the first of them, a live ballet class directed by master Dominic Antonucci.