Swan Lake
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Swan Lake 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 Frédéric de Haenen for the décor of act 2, Moscow 1877
![Adelina Juri [ru] as Odette and Mikhail Mordkin as Prince Siegfried in Aleksandr Gorsky's staging of the Petipa/Ivanov Swan Lake for the Bolshoi Theat](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Swanlakemordkin.jpg/500px-Swanlakemordkin.jpg)
Adelina Juri [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 as Odette in Julius Reisinger's original production of Swan Lake, Moscow 1877
Pierina Legnani as Odette (1895)
Black Swan (film)
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Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Darren Aronofsky, from a screenplay by Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin, and Andres Heinz, and based on a story by Heinz. Starr
Swan Lake
…to lure Odette in the new prologue, and the other dancer is covered in sinister "monster makeup" which reveals the magician's true self. (In the film Black Swan, Natalie Portman, as Nina, dreams this in the film's opening sequence). About half-an-hour of the complete score is omitted from this production. Graeme…
Theatrical release poster
The scene from the ballet Swan Lake in which the Black Swan (Odile) tricks and seduces the Prince
Mila Kunis was first approached to star in Black Swan in 2008.
Part of the filming took place at the State University of New York at Purchase Performing Arts Center