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 Harris Odette Harris Odette Harris is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. She is the Director of the Brain Injury Program for the Stanford Medical Network. Harris graduated from Dartmouth College in 1991. She studied medicine at Stanford University. She was the only black woman in her class at medical school, and the only woman during her residency. She completed a masters of public health in epidemiology at University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. In 2007 she joined Louisiana State University working on peripheral neuropathy. She completed a fellowship at the University of the West Indies. Her speciality is traumatic