{"id":467837,"date":"2026-09-18T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467837\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:04:47","slug":"world-ballet-company-bringing-swan-lake-to-downey-the-downey-patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467837\/","title":{"rendered":"World Ballet Company bringing \u2018Swan Lake\u2019 to Downey \u2014 The Downey Patriot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">DOWNEY \u2014 World Ballet Company will bring \u201cSwan Lake\u201d to the Downey Theatre at 7 p.m. Feb. 16, 2027, as part of its national tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The production will feature choreography by Nadezhda Kalinina, based on the original staging by Marius Petipa, along with more than 150 hand-sewn costumes, hand-painted sets and multimedia projections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Set to Tchaikovsky\u2019s score, \u201cSwan Lake\u201d follows Prince Siegfried and Odette, a princess cursed to live as a swan by day. Their love is threatened when the sorcerer\u2019s daughter, Odile, deceives the prince.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWe believe ballet is for everyone, and the response from audiences nationwide has been incredible,\u201d said producer Gulya Hartwick, who co-founded the company with Sasha Gorskaya. \u201cSwan Lake is arguably the most iconic ballet ever created, and we\u2019re thrilled to bring this majestic production to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Los Angeles-based company\u2019s ensemble includes dancers from more than 10 countries. The Downey performance is among more than 80 planned presentations of \u201cSwan Lake\u201d during its 2026-27 tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The performance will run approximately two hours and 30 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission, and is recommended for ages 5 and older.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">To receive updates and notification when tickets become available, visit worldballetcompany.com\/downey1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNEY \u2014 World Ballet Company will bring \u201cSwan Lake\u201d to the Downey Theatre at 7 p.m. Feb. 16,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-467837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}