The Dying Swan is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux, created as a piece for the ballerina Anna Pavlova, who performed it about four thousand times. First presented in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905, the short ballet depicts the last moments in the life of a swan and has influenced later interpretations of the swan queen Odette in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
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Choreographed by Michel Fokine for Anna Pavlova, 1905.
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1905 solo dance piece choreographed by Michel Fokine for Anna Pavlova.
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was first presented in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905
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The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine
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The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova, who performed it about 4,000 times.
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