Tchaikovskys Swan Lake

Image Not Available Director: Matthew Bourne Dvd Release: 5th October, 1998 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Full Screen, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Matthew Bourne is a choreographer Matthew was born on 13th January 1960 in London. At the age of five or six he staged his first production. In 1982 he enrolled at the Laban Centre for Movement & Dance, where he was awarded a BA. For the next year he danced with the Laban Centres Transitions Dance Company. As a founder member of Lea Andersons Featherstonehaughs he created many roles within the company. Outside the field of dance he has made dances for actors including Sir Nigel Hawthorne & Dawn French & Jonathan Pryce. His final performance as a dancer was in January 1999 on Broadway. Since then he has been a producer. Bournes first professional stage production was Overlap Lovers. An Intrigue in Three Parts in 1987. Apart from a gap in 1993, he has produced musicals & ballets every year. His work on the film Billy Elliott in 2000 has probably been seen by more people than anything else he has done. His first major brush with controversy was Swan Lake in 1995, where the story was entirely re-written & the role of the swans taken by men dressed in black.

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