The Dying Swan that the dance today is often made to appear to be a variation of "Swan Lake", which she describes as "Odette at death's door." Isabelle says that the ballet is not about a ballerina being able to transform herself into a swan, but about death, with the swan as a metaphor. Pavlova was recorded dancing "The Dying Swan" in a 1925 silent film, to which sound is often added. The short ballet has influenced interpretations of Odette in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake", particularly during the parting of the lovers in the first lakeside scene. The dance was almost immediately adapted by
Odette Nyiramilimo a physician, and the two later founded a private maternity and pedatrics practice in Kigali called "Le Bon Samaritain" ("Good Samaritan"). Nyiramilimo's life story was profiled at length in Philip Gourevitch's book "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families". Odette Nyiramilimo Odette Nyiramilimo (born 1956) is a Rwandan physician and senator. She served as Minister of State for Social Affairs in the government of Paul Kagame from March 2000 to October 2003. Nyiramilimo, an ethnic Tutsi, was born in Kinunu, Gisenyi prefecture, the seventeenth of her father's eighteen children, born to his second