Peter Schaufuss Ballet: Swan Lake – review

Coliseum, LondonIn most productions of Swan Lake, Odile's seduction of Siegfried climaxes with her iconic 32 fouetté turns: black sparks glinting from her tutu and her mocking eyes as she bamboozles the Prince into submission. In Peter Schaufuss's new version of the ballet, Odile's method of seduction is to drop to her knees and slowly pull down the Prince's trousers: fellatio as the contemporary equivalent of fouettés.Crass as it sounds (and Schaufuss doesn't spare the details, with Odile p...

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