Her reading - something in keeping with a tragic swan queen - grew predictable.

Here was the Swan Queen without hope, intent already upon the suicide to come.

I wanted to be as much a person as possible, even as a swan queen.

There is nothing of ballet's exotic firebird or suffering swan queen here.

There's certainly not a swan queen in sight.

Her swan queen has both turn-out and arched feet.

She is the Swan Queen, fluttering all over the studio.

It's a promising sign, he thinks, and immediately installs her as the Swan Queen.

Maria Kowroski, his Swan Queen, seemed to be in a different work.

That takes someone with a progressive eye and outlook, who wants to change our perception of who can be a prince or a swan queen.