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Sleeping Beauty: now with added vampires

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Don’t feed the swans: pumped up for the all-male ballet

People used to walk out of ‘Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake’ when they saw male-on-male dancing, and the eroticism is undeniable. Backstage, as heads are shaved and make-up applied, the scenes are just as colourful




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