Camille Saint Saëns: Carnival of Animals The Dying Swan ( Le Cygne) Dancer, Svetlana Zakharova

The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1905 to Camille SaintSaëns s cello solo Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des Animaux as a pièce d occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova. The short ballet follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905. Pavlova performed the dance about 4, 000 times. The ballet has since influenced modern interpretations of Odette in Tchaikovsky s Swan Lake and has inspired nontraditional br, br,