THE WILD SWANS
When the sun began to slide down behind the sea, Elisa saw eleven wild swans, with golden crowns on their heads, flying toward the beach. Like a white ribbon pulled across the sky, they flew one after the other. Elisa hid behind some bushes. The swans landed nearby, still flapping their great white wings.
At that moment when the sun finally sank below the horizon, the swans turned into eleven handsome princes, Elisa’s brothers.
From: A Treasury of Hans Christian Anderson
Ballet poses inspired by:
Anna Pavlova
Arthur Mitchell
Margot Fonteyn
Marie Taglioni
Maya Plisetskaya
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Rudolf Nureyev
Vaslav Nijinsky
