Swan Lake Nina Ananiashvili with Alexei Fadeyechev and Sergei Zagorulko and the Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet Choreography by Petipa, Ivanov & Gorsky, Music by Tchaikovsky Ananiashvili first performed Swan Lake at the age of seventeen and the ballet has been a mainstay of her repertoire ever since. Physically and dramatically it is a role neatly tailored to her exceptional gifts. This performance, taped while the company was on tour in Japan, is the only available video of Ananiashvili in Swan Lake. She is joined in this production by Alexei Fadeyechev, her partner of a dozen years, “a fantastic partner.” Swan Lake, probably the most frequently performed ballet in the classical repertoire, boasts a story filled with mystery and fantasy and a dual role for the ballerina requiring a prodigious technique and keen dramatic instincts—demands so effectively met by Ananiashvili in this 1992 performance with the Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet. DVD 131 minutes, color