Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Karen Kain decided that the corps de ballet in Swan Lake will forgo traditional pink tights and bare their legs — a response to calls from within the company to address ballet’s troubling history of racism.

The series Swan Song brings viewers inside The National Ballet of Canada as the company mounts a legacy-defining new production of Swan Lake, directed by ballet icon Karen Kain.
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