Understanding dance and its non-human agency in Ekman’s “A Swan Lake” by Martina Cayul

“…This article examines Alexander Ekman’s A Swan Lake through new materialisms, focusing on how the introduction of a 6,000-liter lake redefines movement and narrative in ballet. …”
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Mujeres en el ballet: maestras, bailarinas y productoras en Guadalajara by Cristina Castellano

“…It uses, as a case study, the participation of producers, teachers and dancers from Guadalajara (Mexico) who made an ambitious ensamble of Swan Lake in a natural space. The production of a show between 1999 and 2004 is analyzed here, to reveal the absence of support from local government cultural institutions and the existence of social actoresses who with astuteness, intervened in helpless settings of programming that lacked artistic development and promotion. …”
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