A Swan Lake Halloween

 My sister and I both adore the Swan Lake ballet.  So since we are co-hosting a Halloween party this year, we thought it would be fun to do a joint costume.  I saw a ballet costume on the front page of Etsy, and it hit me: Swan Lake!  We found these costumes on Ebay that we bought, and we're going to deck them out with feathers.  

Lindsey will be the white swan Odette, and I the black swan Odile. 

We recently watched this rehearsal for the 2011 production at the Royal Opera House in London:

I love the way the director guides them- he's quite hilarious!

Something I didn't know is that Swan Lake was not initially well received when it was first performed in Russia.  It was thought that the production and dancing were particularly poor, and no one paid much attention to the music.  I don't know about you, but I can't hear the main theme without getting goosebumps.  And I think if Tchaikovsky could see the production value of his ballet today, he would be very proud.

1. Flicker  2. Official London Theatre  3. Arts Journal  4. Pinterest

PS: For the first five years of my life I dressed up as a ballerina- imaginative, aren't I? ;)