How can classical ballet and African dance be combined? Young South-African choreographer Dada Masilo has the answer, making her first appearance in Greece with this reworking of Swan Lake that shatters the stereotypes surrounding the most famous of Romantic ballets and turns any homophobic prejudices harboured by audiences in their head.

The fusion is elevated by her profuse talent, audacity, exuberant energy and humour: with a company of twelve black men and women, all barefoot and dressed in tutus, she sets the Lake on fire, and places music by contemporary composers alongside Tchaikovsky’s well-known score.

The well-known ballet which premiered in South Africa in 2010 is visiting Athens on the 7th-9th of June.

More details and bookings can be found here

Choreographed by
Dada Masilo

Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Steve Reich
René Avenant
Camille Saint-Saëns
Arvo Pärt

Lighting Design
Suzette Le Sueur

Costume Design
Dada Masilo
Suzette Le Sueur