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It commences with the arrival of the Queen and the Prince and some formal dancing, but quickly degenerates into a debauched party of drinking and lascivious come-ons. Scene 1 begins with princesses from various European nations and their escorts arriving at the palace gates for a grand ball. This Act contains the most talked-about element of the ballet in which bare-chested, barefoot male dancers play the swans, and it contains a very sensual pas de deux between the lead Swan and the Prince. The Prince is elated and abandons his plan to kill himself. Initially rejected by the lead Swan, the Prince is gradually accepted and taken into the Swan's arms. He is saved by a vision in which he encounters the lead Swan, who had appeared to him in his dreams. It is the first flash of the Prince's descent into mental turmoil.ĭistraught and disappointed that he will never find affection, the Prince writes a suicide note and goes to throw himself into a lake at a public park inhabited by swans. While sitting in the street at the end of Scene Seven the Prince imagines a group of swans flying towards him but the vision disappears. This increases his desperation and he vows to kill himself. In Scene Seven, he sees the Girlfriend being paid off by von Rothbart, and he is totally shattered to discover that the only person who appeared to love him is a fake. The Prince gets into a fight with sailors at the bar, and he is thrown out into the street.
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Here is where the choreography veers from classical ballet, with jazz forms and modern dance dominating. The Prince then goes into the streets and into the Swank Bar, a 1970s-style disco, in Scenes Five and Six. A nearly violent pas de deux ensues in which he pleads for her attention and love, while she rebukes him. Scene 4 finds the Prince drinking in his private chambers in front of a mirror, to his mother's shock. The Girlfriend's responses to the dance as well as her eventual dropping her purse from the royal box annoy the Queen and von Rothbart. The ballet's backdrop (from a design for Castle Falkenstein by Christian Jank), ornate costumes, and acting parody the romantic ballets of which the original Swan Lake was an example. In Scene 3, the Queen, one of her admiring soldiers, the Private Secretary, the Prince, and the Girlfriend all appear in a theatre box, where they watch a ballet that is staged for the actual audience as well as for the characters. Although the girl seems foisted on him by von Rothbart, the Private Secretary, the Prince prefers her to his duty-bound life. This now-adult Prince is introduced to a girl called "the Girlfriend". During this scene, there is a transition from the child actor playing the young Prince to the identically-dressed adult dancer who portrays the grown Prince.
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His mother prods him to keep up appearances, even as she devotes more attention to the soldiers than she does to him.
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In Scene 2, arrayed in his full dress uniform, the Prince becomes bored by a boat christening, a ribbon cutting, and other official tasks. Scene 1 opens with the Prince being prepared for a day of official duties by chambermaids and valets. The Prince's mother comes in to comfort him, but becoming nervous by the situation's intimacy, leaves. In the prologue, the Prince, as a child, is awakened by a nightmare of a swan. The plot of the ballet revolves around a young crown prince, his distant mother, and his desire for freedom, represented by a swan. This synopsis is derived from programme notes and the synopsis provided on the DVD.