Now spread your wings! Flock of 100 dancers star in English National Ballet’s Swan Lake – in pictures
An in-the-round production at the Royal Albert Hall in London features more than 100 performers – including 60 dancing swans. Tristram Kenton went into the rehearsals
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Choreographer and director Derek Deane (back centre) with English National Ballet dancers at ENB’s headquarters in Canning Town, London
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Deane (right) working with lead principal Sangeun Lee (back) and first soloist Gareth Haw (left)
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Swan Lake in-the-Round was first performed in 1997
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Sangeun Lee plays the dual role of Odette/Odile
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Gareth Haw (far left) as Prince Siegfried and first soloist James Streeter (second from right) as Rothbart
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Streeter and Haw rehearse for the ballet, known for its soaring Tchaikovsky score
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The score will be played live by the English National Ballet Philharmonic
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The production is designed by Peter Farmer
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Deane’s version of the ballet has been seen by more than half a million people around the world
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The production’s lighting design is by Howard Harrison
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Swan Lake in-the-Round is at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 12-23 June