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'It was a shock to many': Matthew Bourne on his Swan Lake with male swans, the show that shook up the dance world

'It was a shock to many': Matthew Bourne on his Swan Lake with male swans, the show that shook up the dance world Emmanuel Lafont/ Getty Images Celebrating the 30th anniversary of his legendary stage production, Matthew Bourne tells the BBC about the show that radically changed ballet with one "big idea". I think the thing I'm most proud of …

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Matthew Bourne: ‘I don’t understand why there aren’t more gay love stories in ballet’

Matthew Bourne productions screened online for Chinese viewers

Five stage productions by British choreographer Matthew Bourne — Swan Lake, The Red Shoes, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet and The Car Man, are now screening on Chinese online streaming platform Tencent Video as part of an online screening series co-launched by Beijing-based ATW Culture Media Ltd. It won the 1996 Laurence Olivier Award for the best new dance production and …

Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell review, Sadler’s Wells:

Matthew Bourne’s new work weaves through the Soho of the 1930s. In some ways, it’s a return to Bourne’s roots, to smaller-scale works dissecting British attitudes to class and sex. The Midnight Bell is all Bourne, drawing on Hamilton but developing his own story – his first since the wonderful Play Without Words in 2002. Matthew Bourne’s ‘The Midnight Bell’ …

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