American Liberty Ballet, a company based in NY and NJ, adds a fresh twist to a beloved classic with The Dying of Swan Lake*, coming to Manhattan this March. ALB reframes the iconic Swan story as a ...

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After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death ...

I first saw a video of Maya Plisetskaya dancing when she died early last month. Though I grew up going to the ballet with some frequency, and took lessons for eight years, lately I’ve been bored by it ...