Swan Lake

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781907704222
  • Dimensions: 138 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Publisher: Flying Eye Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Swan Lake is a beautiful concertina book detailing a night at the Ballet.

Illustrated by Californian artist Ping Zhu, we see the pristine theatre, audience and performance on one side and the back-stage bustle and nerves on the other. Based on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, the images are not only inspired by the dramatic story but also the atmosphere of a working dance venue. Zhu illustrates the orchestra, the boxes and even the entrance hall and ticket office. Backstage is a world away from the delicate and precise presentation of front stage – ropes and pulleys, stage hands and prop handlers, seamstresses sewing sequins, ballerinas nervously awaiting their queue, the director signalling and gesturing silently – all in all we are treated to delightful concertina which anyone with an interest in the performing arts will immediately love.

Ping Zhu grew up in Los Angeles and recently graduated from Art Center, Pasadena, USA with a first class degree in illustration. She works as a freelance illustrator and now lives in Chelsea, London. We are very excited to be publishing her first book.

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