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[lady-arryn]

Boston Ballet’s production of Swan Lake  *•♫♪

[vampyrekatwrites]

The vanished princess, the woman who takes her place, the sorcerer who changes her, the hunter who loves her.

Odile’s gown is beautiful, designed to lighten the color of her eyes and make her look like the princess, but she cannot shake the sense she should dance with the swans instead of relax with champagne and opera glasses.

Rothbart offers her his arm and she takes it gratefully. Her shoes are unfamiliar, shoving her up onto her toes in ugly, painful, ways, but she is here to see the queen and that is worth a little pain now.

Siegfried hunts for swans, his weapon at his side. He thinks of long white necks draped in pearls and how blood looks across opera seats, fights down the shudder, and Odile walks past him on Rothbart’s arm without a glance. Siegfried sighs and closes a door after the false princess and the man who made her.

Rothbart wants what life had denied him. He wants comfort and luxury and, he has begun to realize, to wed a princess. Odile looks fine on his arm, but he remembers Odette beneath a cloudless June sky and knows Odile is not the princess. Not yet.

When the queen arrives, Rothbart offers Odile opera glasses to examine her. He examines Odile as her eyes widen, soften, become liquid and bright and very like Odette. If she can convince the queen, she will be the princess in truth.

She tricks the queen, and Rothbart loves her.

Siegfried comes to finish what he began on the hunt.

It’s what you’ve come to do.

[morgauseloveshersisters]

Amandine Albisson as Odile || Swan Lake || Opéra National de Paris

[heaven-by-the-sea]

Swan Lake | English National Ballet

[fictionalpoem]

~Ballet Moodboard~ Swan Lake Requested by @beaurozguru Requests are open

[lenoreamidala]

swan lake

[ladyeowyn]

✧ summer giveaway:  S w a n  L a k e  for @wormwoodandhoney

[goldentailedmermaids]

M a k e   m e   c h o o s e   m e m e:   F a i r y t a l e   e d i t i o n :                         ↳  the red shoes or the swan lake (for anon)

↣ “ He had danced with fair maidens before, but Odette was different. She was graceful and beautiful, but there was something in her eyes and in the things she said, an intelligence and a boldness that belied her quiet demeanor. “ [source] ↢

[lenoreamidala]