Sir Matthew Christopher Bourne is a British choreographer. His productions contain many classic cinema and popular culture references and draw thematic inspiration from musicals, film noir and popular culture
Sadler's Wells Theatre
Swan Lake, Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular ballets of all time.
Design by F. Gaanen for the décor of act 2, Moscow 1877
Adelaide Giuri [ru] as Odette and Mikhail Mordkin as Prince Siegfried in Aleksandr Gorsky's staging of the Petipa/Ivanov Swan Lake for the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 1901. A young Vera Karalli is seen kneeling.
Anna Sobeshchanskaya [ru] as Odette in Julius Reisinger's original production of Swan Lake, Moscow, 1877
Pierina Legnani as Odette (1895)