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 Tchernine Tchernine. Her second novel, published in 1922, was about the Australian bush. Odette Tchernine Odette Tchernine ( – ) was a British author, novelist and journalist, notable for writing several books on the Abominable Snowman or Yeti, such as "In Pursuit of the Abominable Snowman", Taplinger Publishing, 1971. Before "In Pursuit", she published "The Snowman and Company". Initially a socialite and novelist, she earned a reputation from the 1950s through the 1970s "as one of Britain's most formidable monster hunters." Tchernine was born in Paris to a Russian financier father, Dimitri Tchernine (Dmitry Chernin), and a French mother, Yvonne, from