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The Szeged Contemporary Ballet's production of Black Swan reimagines the classic work as a ballet thriller.
The direction taken by Tamás Juronics lead the audience not to the world of fairy tales, but to the closed environment of a 19th-century asylum. The performance is set at the time of the premiere of Swan Lake in 1877, when ideas about the human mind and mental illness often led to cruel and now bizarre treatment methods.
The choreography created by Tamás Juronics, Gergely Czár and the company combines the beauty of ballet with psychological tension. Here, the swan is not only a symbol of transformation, but also an image of freedom, obsession and the disintegration of reality.