Somewhere over the last 145 years, there was a collective, pop-cultural agreement that Swan Lake is ballet. “Whaddya gonna do? Shoot the schvans?” Barbra Steisand asks in Funny Girl, standing in front of her own flock of tutued swans. When Taylor Swift twerks in a tutu in her Shake it Off music video, of course she wears a white-feathered tutu. When Billy Elliot becomes a professional ballet dancer in the grand finale of the movie, he leaps onto the stage with the booming timpany of Tchavovsky’s music in a production of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. In 1977 Rudolf Nureyev, one of the most prolific and influential dancers in ballet history, appeared on The Muppet Show to dance a pas de deux with a pig – some poor overheated ballerina wearing a pig-suit, a white-feathered tutu and a white-feathered headpiece.
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