24 May 2005
Of all the great performers of any age or media, Mde Maria d’Issac-Spango forever defines the highest quality of theatrical excellence.
Her presentation of The Dying Swan from Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake”, interpreted for the High-Wire, is perhaps her most famous creation.
Her presentation of The Dying Swan from Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake”, interpreted for the High-Wire, is perhaps her most famous creation.
Here, in frames from the unforgettable show at The Warsaw Rialto in 1990 is a glimpse of her incredible talent.
With high stepping pirouettes Maria seems to fly weightlessly atop the wire…
…then, in a transcendent evocation of the music and the narrative, Maria, The Dying Swan, falls from the wire as the audience gasps.
She tumbles over and over…
…dropping feathers in her downward spin to the net-less depths below!
But with preternatural grace, she rights herself...
…loops the loop...
…to make the turn…
...glide in…
...and descend majestically in an artful pose of beauty, strength and courage…
…to a safe landing…
..on the surface of the Lake…
… and finally takes the acclamation of the roaring crowd with her singular and ever-gracious bow!
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