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Swan Lake
Documentary on the work of ‘Le Lac des Cygnes’ (Swan Lake) revisited by Dada Masilo.
At the age of eleven, Dada fell in love with Swan Lake and promised to create her own personal version of it.
With a company of thirteen African male and female dancers, the South African choreographer Dada Masilo revisited this great classic of Western dance that she has appropriated with her themes, Tchaikovsky’s music, her tutus and her pointe shoes and that she has “South-Africanised” by giving it a second wind and a new life.
She joyfully explodes the codes of romantic ballet with a single watchword: be iconoclastic. Even ballet maniacs cannot resist this Lake of another kind. Here, classical dance merges brilliantly with African contemporary dance and even Tchaikovsky’s music mingles melodiously with other sounds. She thus revises the argument of Swan Lake, making Siegfried a prince with homosexual loves. By crossing the gender issue with that of homophobia in a country ravaged by AIDS, this Swan Lake speaks to us of tolerance and feelings.
Source: Maison de la Danse
