but with derek dean there in the best of hands he's made his name choreographing productions performed in huge arena. yes dean has studied stagings of swan lake throughout history from the premiere in eight hundred seventy seven to modern day performances he says there have been major changes. you know where it's well it was for us before it was a disaster i mean everybody booed at the performance is everybody said the music was trying to dreadful the choreography was appalling and they had to put the production away for many years and then it was rethought redone with the same music and through the years it became this leave. the fairy tale about prince secrets desperate attempt to save swan princess or death from the spell cast by an evil sorcerer is a perennial favorite when derek dean first staged swan lake in one thousand nine hundred seventy in london princess diana was among his most ardent admirers. she would come true she would turn up unannounced she would come and have a church she would just come and sit with his and she was terribly easy and very comfortable and there was

but with derek dean there in the best of hands he's made his name choreographing productions performed in huge arena. as dean has studied stagings of swan lake throughout history from the primary nation seventy seven to modern day performances he says there have been major changes. no words well it was for us before it was a disaster i mean everybody booed at the performances everybody said the music was trying to dreadful the choreography was appalling and they had to put the production away for many years and then it was rethought redone with the same music and through the years it became this a legal trial the fairy tale about prince siegfried desperate attempt to save swan princess or dead from the spell cast by an evil sorcerer is a perennial favorite when derek dean first stage swan lake in one thousand nine hundred seven in london princess diana was among his most ardent admirers. she would come to us she would turn up unannounced she would come and have lunch she would just come and sit with outsiders and she was terribly easy and very comfortable and there was no sides to her

derek dean and the shanghai ballet swan lake has already received rave reviews. robert swan lake it is iconic in the world of bio ballet but what is made it so popular well first of all i mean without a doubt tchaikovsky i mean one of the greatest composers who ever lived for it he wrote it and then by the way he wrote the nutcracker and sleeping beauty and if you take those three they sort of define the classical genre really i mean in the case this form like i think the hit choose if you like i mean we had. but also me when you think of the don'ts of the little cygnets or the dolls the little swarms richard say there's the look you know it's a very famous thing i mean apart from that it's a tell you last story of a prison sioux falls for a for a princess there's magic in it is sorcery and it is a kind of mixture of cinderella the prince looking for the great love and then romeo and juliet because at the end of course. spoiler alert this production they don't die it's all the first time this is being done there's a happy ending in this family i think you know wh

but with derek dean there in the best of hands he's made his name choreographing productions performed in huge arena. yes dean has studied stagings of swan lake throughout history from the primary nine hundred seventy seven to modern day performances he says there have been major changes. you know what's what it was for us before it was a disaster i mean everybody booed at the performances everybody said the music was trying to dreadful the choreography was appalling and they had to put the production away for many years and then it was rethought and redone with the same music and through the years it became this legal trial the fairy tale about prince siegfried desperate attempt to save swan princess or death from the spell cast by an evil sorcerer is a perennial favorite when derek dean first staged swan lake in one thousand nine hundred seven in london princess diana was among his most ardent admirers. she would come. she would turn up unannounced she would come and have lunch she would just come and sit with announcers and she was terribly easy and very comfortable and there was no

in child of celebrated british choreographer derek dean it is the biggest. i mean there hasn't been this one the good this side is in a proceeding and theatre and not even you know the paris opera the ballad the care of the bolshoi nobody has ever created something like this so be very interesting to see audience reaction. to this i got a tsunami of swans all on and therein lies the test so many swans on the stage at once is a logistical challenge the forty eight dancers must move in perfect synchrony even the slightest mistake would ruin the illusion and the production is a particular challenge for the soloist they have to navigate around twice as many fellow dancers as usual on a new stage all the while making it look as if there's nothing to it. but the dancers could hardly be in safer hands derek dean made his name as a choreographer of a large scale ballets to prepare for this production he studied the history of swan lake from its premier eight hundred seventy seven to its present day incarnations. you know what it was first before it was a disaster i

derek dean and the shanghai ballet swan like has already received rave reviews from. derek dean and the shanghai ballet just doing a great job there it's interesting to hear him talk about it now but but but more largely what is it about swan lake that has made it this perennial favorite in the repertoire yeah i mean i first and foremost one has to say tchaikovsky i mean tchaikovsky one of the greatest composers who ever lived and certainly one of the greatest ballet composers i mean after this he did sleeping beauty and he did the not crack and these are three of the greatest ballets in the genre really i mean with one let it be dare i say it it's got those hit choose we already heard. of the people. that's the most not one then there's the the dumps of the cygnets old little swans that we most probably know is de dum dum dum the you know that everybody does these jeans and apart from the hip shoes it's the classic timeless love story with the prince and the princess there's magic in there the sorcery i mean it's a mixture of cinderella or on one side the prince is s

but is it quantity over quality on the contrary derek dean and the shanghai ballet have performed swan lake repeatedly for international audiences to great acclaim. still giving them pure a classical ballet you're not changing the structure you're not changing the law you're giving them the best product you can give them it's just it's just this overwhelming sensation of people just bring something else to the back. the show lives up to its advertising slogan with more songs than you can count derek dean's version of swan lake is a great ballet there's won't be performing it's wrong song any time soon. this mammoth production will be in berlin till the sixteenth of december when it moves on to the austrian capital vienna now it's time to take a look at today's headlines around the continent in our express we make stops in helsinki and liverpool but first up we're in moscow. at the weekend the big ice rink opened moscow's red square professional figure skaters took to the ice at the foot of the kremlin for the opening. the rink can accommodate up to four hundred fifty skaters. muscovite

but with derek dean there in the best of hands he's made his name choreographing productions performed in huge arena. yes dean has studied stagings of swan lake throughout history from the primary nine hundred seventy seven to modern day performances he says there have been major changes. you know where it's well it was for us before it was a disaster i mean everybody booed at the performances everybody said the music was trying to be dreadful the choreography was appalling and they had to put the production away for many years and then it was rethought redone with the same music and through the years it became this. is a fairy tale about prince siegfried's desperate attempt to save swan princess or death from the spell cast by an evil sorcerer is a perennial favorite when derek dean first stage swan lake in one thousand nine hundred seventy in london princess diana was among his most ardent admirers. she would come to rehearsals she would turn up unannounced she would come and have a she would just come and sit with outsiders and she was terribly easy and very comfortable and there wa

let's get some perspective on the story we have derek scally a correspondent for the irish times newspaper here in berlin and i've heard first from dean of you business with the economic aspect of the story and i want to start with you derek we heard the irish prime minister there essentially ruling out any changes to the agreement there do you see any path forward for theresa may and that with this parliament it's very hard to see i mean we're almost into this is emotional territory this is not reality anymore this is. i often talk of it as post-imperial stress disorder i think you know it's this is very written this is about internal british politics and i think even people in dublin who understand how the british public political system take they're really starting to see as somebody said in our newspaper this morning this is like a briggs it's referred to by the marx brothers i mean there is no necessarily any logic anymore in there so britain and art and they both want a good deal on our land is hugely dependent on this and then they will do anything they can do what they have who's reopen this because we're three months away on