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

Much of the world knows the story of “Swan Lake,” the most iconic of all ballets. Few know exactly how punishing the lead ...

ballerina Unity Phelan stopped just before launching into the famed 32 fouettés — those crowd-pleasing whiplash turns on one leg performed by Odile, the devious Black Swan. “No fouettés ...

Sameera said to fulfil her passion of climbing Mount Everest, she is cycling from Anantapur ... She has also appealed for crowd funding. Sameera told Deccan Chronicle, “For the past seven ...

ballerina Unity Phelan stopped just before launching into the famed 32 fouettés — those crowd-pleasing whiplash turns on one leg performed by Odile, the devious Black Swan. “No fouettés ...

As graceful and ephemeral as it appears, Odette-Odile is a dancer's Mount Everest, requiring stellar technique, prodigious training, uncommon stamina, emotional resilience — and even carbo-loading.