Rehearsing “Swan Lake” a few weeks ago in a sweaty studio, trying to iron out some last-minute kinks, ballerina Unity Phelan ...

The white swan and the black swan, both portrayed by the Kansas City Ballet’s Kaleena Burks, represent good and evil in “Swan ...

Black Swan': Ruffled feathers 'Black Swan' controversy: 'Natalie herself did most of the dancing,' insist filmmakers 'Black Swan' double claims Natalie Portman only did '5 percent' of full-body ...

Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance ... Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black ...

They say a classical ballet isn’t over until the female protagonist dies. Tchaikovsky’s popular 1870s Swan Lake is a prime example. Turned into a white swan by Baron Von Rothbart, Odette perishes in ...

Miller laughs when hearing the anecdote that actor Natalie Portman, prepping for her “Black Swan” movie role, subsisted on carrots and almonds to get in ballerina shape. In real life, dancing ...