Far from being a humorous version of the original love story, Bourne describes the relationship between the prince and the swan as “the heart of the film for me”.
“This prince is looking for something he didn’t have in his life,” he says. “He had a cold mother and no one wanted to touch him. If you think about it, that applies to royal people. So being held on the swan’s wings was the crux of it. For him, it represented everything about him.” Being free, being wild, that’s something very moving and profound that’s captured so well in Tchaikovsky’s music, because this story has so much to do with himself. This is because there are elements that bring about oneself. Also. ”
The choreographer also noted that because his “royal” family’s costumes were modern, the 1995 headlines were primarily about the swan, rather than his connections to the British royal family or the then-Prince of Wales and Princess Diana’s divorce. He also expressed surprise at the focus. Princess of Wales.
“The royal family was very big in the news at the time, and the lead actor, Prince Charles, even looked like Prince Charles at one point, so I thought there would be a story about a troubled prince. But , it was all about cultural icons.” That’s Dancing Swan. ”
slipping into pop culture
On November 9, 1995, the world premiere of Swan Lake, starring Royal Ballet principal dancer Adam Cooper as the swan, caused an instant sensation.
“I think a lot of people in the audience were shocked when Adam Cooper and the costumed men showed up,” Vaughn says.
“It wasn’t a terrible shock. It was just something completely new. And it was a shock to me that it went viral overnight. We were front page headlines in some newspapers. That. In the interval Cameron Mackintosh cornered me” – he didn’t wait for the end of the show and said he had to go to the West End. He immediately realized that there was something inside. ”
Some people were ejected when two men started dancing together, he added, during the first record-breaking run in London’s West End in 1996 and on Broadway in 1998. The sexuality of this work became a hot topic. Controversial topic. Same-sex marriage was depicted on America’s most popular sitcom Friends in January 1996, weeks after the premiere of Swan Lake, but same-sex relationships were not fully legalized in the United States or the United States. It will take another 20 years to achieve equality. England.
