Swan Lake

1. A ballet by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in which a prince fights for the love of the Swan Queen. Swan Lake is one of the most famous ballets.

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In recent days, Russian police in St. Petersburg and other cities started arresting street musicians who played to crowds of young people songs banned by the regime, including “Swan Lake,” a piece by exiled rapper Noize MC that imagines Putin’s death.

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At the grand end of the scale, Miami City Ballet brought its recent production of “Swan Lake” to Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa — beginning a run of varied versions of Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet this summer.

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Miami City Ballet has attracted attention for mounting what is being called a historically informed “Swan Lake” by the noted Bolshoi-trained choreographer Alexei Ratmansky.

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Historically informed performance, or HIP, is a loaded term, and “Swan Lake” is a loaded ballet.

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Ratmansky’s reconstructed “Swan Lake” does much the opposite with modern instruments and old-fashioned ballet, and it got off to a disorienting start Sunday night.

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