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The Royal Ballet returned to "Swan Lake" for its final weekend of performances at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Since stellar guest artists and several listed principals had left the tour before Costa Mesa, the company found itself presenting some interpretations of Siegfried and the Swan Queen never seen in England.
Dancing these roles for the second time, both Errol Pickford and Bonnie Moore brought strong technique and a distinctive sense of drama to the Saturday-matinee cast.
A winner of the Erik Bruhn Prize, Pickford danced his solos with authority and, alone of the weekend Siegfrieds, added an optional sequence of entrechats (crisp, high, perfectly placed) to the Black Swan pas de deux. Although an ardent, considerate partner, he emphasized Siegfried's very human...