Male Swan Lake

If you've ever dreamt to be a swan lake ballet dancer, but you don't have the legs for it, here's a chance to fulfil your dream.

Matthew Bourne’s version of all-male "Swan Lake" will arrive in Sydney just in time for Mardi Gras next month. Based on a libretto by Vladimir Begichev and fashioned from an ancient German legend, which tells the story of Odette – a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer’s curse - it's homoerotically charged incarnation with all muscular sexy male swans.

"The idea of a male swan makes complete sense to me" says Matthew, "the strength, the beauty, the enormous wingspan of these creatures suggests to me the musculature of a male dancer more readily than a ballerina in her white tutu."

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake plays at the Capitol Theatre, Haymarket from Feb 21 to Mar 18.