Swan Lake – review

Birmingham HippodromeThe Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe of China was established in 1951, and since then has performed all over the world. The UK first saw the company's extraordinary version of Swan Lake three years ago, by which point it was already a YouTube sensation. The idea of creating a full-length acrobatic work to Tchaikovsky's score came about when two of the company's performers, Wei Baohua and his wife Wu Zhengdan, made a piece called Oriental Swan Ballet on Top of Head. This routine, i...

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