With venues closed, choreographers including Mark Morris have been creating increasingly inventive work at home
Choreographer Corey Baker’s Swan Lake, reimagined in the bath, is a total delight. Made for the BBC, which goes some way to explaining why its production values are so much higher than all the other Zoom dance vids out there, Baker enlisted a cast of 27 top-flight swans, performing in their bathtubs from Houston to Hong Kong, all choreographed remotely. It’s slick, tongue-in-cheek, and full of invention and clever effects, including a Busby Berkeley-style kaleidoscope of legs. But it also has intricate choreography and drama (thanks, Tchaikovsky!), not to mention some smart tiling.
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