The second act of Swan Lake is an outstanding work of early symphonic ballet, which occupies a supreme position in the history of romantic ballet. The choreographer Lev Ivanov (1834- 190 1) completed this ballet with symphonic technique and achieved great success.
Dance drama design runs through the whole drama with theme movements, adopting anthropomorphic techniques and striving for poetic expression. Among them, "Four Little Swan" has become an enduring variation of this dance drama. This variation is light and lively, and the rhythm is clean and neat, which depicts the scene of cygnets playing by the lake.
A series of uniform movements, such as walking, running, jumping and flying, outline a lively and lovely, naughty and naive stage image. Four actors stand in a row, hand in hand, and the arc swing of the head is closely combined with the flexible leg movements, which is dazzling and dazzling.
Dramatic melody texture:
Ballet, as a pantomime art, all story lines are displayed through the dancer's body movements and the melody of music. Tchaikovsky showed different personalities through different musical styles when composing ballet music. He created the musical theme motivation of White Swan and Black Swan.
Whenever the white swan appears, the most famous theme of Swan Lake will appear in the background music. This melody appears repeatedly in the finale of the first act, the opening song and the finale of the second act.