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.
