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The Swan Lake. An adaptation of the story written for the Swan Lake ballet and composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875-1876. Young readers will explore "The swan lake ballet" to stimulate their imagination. A book for young children and adolescents in order to encourage them in an exciting career as classical dance.
In this stunning follow-up to the bestselling The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty, the New York City Ballet presents another timeless tale for a modern ballet lover with Swan Lake. This lavishly illustrated book follows the storyline, choreography, costumes, and sets of the New York City Ballet’s production of Swan Lake. With beautiful art illustrated by Valeria Docampo, this magnificent retelling is a perfect gift for an aspiring ballerina or any family who wants to add this enchanting and classic tale to their library.
Discover the spellbinding magic of Swan Lake in this musical retelling of the ballet – push the button on each beautiful scene to hear the vivid sound of an orchestra playing from Tchaikovsky’s score. This tale of a prince, a beautiful swan princess and an evil sorcerer begins in a woodland clearing far, far away. It is Prince Siegfried’s 21st birthday. He is playing games with his friends when his mother, the Queen, arrives to tell him he needs to stop having fun and start looking after the kingdom. Prince Siegfried dreams of running away. He follows an enchanting flock of swans to a clearing by a lake, where four of the little cygnets begin to dance. The most beautiful swan transforms into the Princess Odette, who tells him that she has been cursed to turn into a swan by day and return to her natural form at night by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart. As the prince and Odette dance, they begin to fall in love. The story follows Prince Siegfried as he attends his birthday party, is tricked into proposing to Von Rothbart’s daughter Odile and returns to the lake to battle the evil sorcerer. Will the prince be reunited with his swan princess? As you and your little one journey through the magical scenes, you will press the buttons to hear 10 excerpts from the ballet’s music. At the back of the book, find a short biography of the composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with details about his composition of Swan Lake. Next to this, you can replay the musical excerpts and, for each of them, read a discussion of the instruments, rhythms and musical techniques that make them so powerful. A glossary defines musical terms. The Story Orchestra series brings classical music to life for children through gorgeously illustrated retellings of classic ballet stories paired with 10-second sound clips of orchestras playing from their musical scores. Manufacturer's note: please pull the white tab out of the back of the book before use. Sound buttons require a firm push in exact location to work, which may be hard for young children. All sound clips are 10 seconds long.
This is the first single story from our book: Ballet Stories For Kids: Five of the Most Magical, Well Loved, World Famous Ballets, Specially Chosen and Adapted Into Children's Stories Would you like to know the story of Swan Lake the ballet? Or buy the paperback book of five famous ballet stories, as a gift for a child you love? Download this ebook or get one of the other stories in the series as an ebook, which are: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Coppelia, The Firebird, and Don Quixote. The whole book, available in both ebook or paperback, of five of the world's most famous classical ballet stories, makes a lovely read, or gift for kids. It is for sale worldwide, at all good bookstores and online marketplaces, and should be found alongside our other books.
Queen Diana kept a secret that fell victim to her two daughters. One Odette is the daughter of a mortal king, the other Odile is the daughter of a sorcerer. Both princesses were cursed, forcing them to turn into swans. Brothers in love with princesses want to remove the spell. For love they have to fight with dangerous magical creatures and charms.
SWAN LAKE is the true journey of ODETTE's Swan Family through tragedy into wonder, with the passion and devotion of Dr.Gunter Rau who braved the rescue of her eggs from the grasp of a terrible April storm. After a five week incubation period, two beautiful cygnets hatched from the batch of nine eggs he salvaged. Reintroduced to their mother ODETTE she eventually accepted them as her own. As soon as the swan father saw the little just hatched swans united with their mother, he immediately started fulfilling his role in nurturing them. From April to August 2013 the fate of this swan family was followed up weekly, documented and photographed to monitor the progress of the only two hatched cygnets, their safety being the main concern. They survived their endangered first days of life, until after 10 weeks they have grown into real little swans. The study and images of this swan family are unique in this field and of incomparable value.
SHORT-LISTED: CBCA Picture Book of the Year, 2018 'Anne Spudvilas is one of Australia's most talented visual artists. Her illustrations are full of emotion and beauty. Anne's Swan Lake is simply enchanting and sublime!' Li Cunxin, author of Mao's Last Dancer and Artistic Director, Queensland Ballet The iconic ballet Swan Lake, the tragic love story of a princess transformed into a swan by an evil sorcerer, has been revered for more than a century. In this atmospheric adaptation, Anne Spudvilas reimagines the classic tale of passion, betrayal and heartbreak in the dramatic riverscape of the Murray-Darling.
Everyone knows the story of Swan Lake, right? Evil curse. Handsome prince. Start to finish in twenty-four hours. Everyone lives happily ever after? Not for the Black Swan’s descendants, cursed unfairly. The ballet storytellers skip this part from their fairy-tale, but Swan Lake 2, the sequel, reveals all! These swans have one chance a month to locate a cure before they die on their twelfth birthday. It’s hardly surprising that eleven-year-old twins Penny and Cobain Atratus surrender the best roles in their ballet school’s summer performance of Swan Lake. They hate Odette, the Swan Princess, and expect to be dead before curtains up, unless their new friends can help. Rosie Maudly has her own problems. Half-and-half, she’s blessed with her mum’s dancing genes and cursed with her dad’s stage fright. The genes are double-edged too, edging her WEBS scholarship but threatening her dreams. Moon has different dilemmas, hardly anyone will understand, and telling you now will spoil the story, but … I trust you with a secret. Rio Grande would rather be at another school. Don’t get me wrong. He loves ballet and is the best in his year, and has already performed in a West End Christmas production of Coppélia. The trouble is he loves sport even more and keeping him at WEBS full-time is going to be, well, a full-time task. Last and dare you say least? Kirsty Qickers. Where to start with her? How about the first page which is included in the free sample? Can you imagine someone like Kirsty ever helping anyone, let alone the twins? Instagram / TikTok / Twitter: @SwanLake_2 Hashtag: #SwanLake2
