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 Dulac " (1924) co-authored with Charles-Etienne about the downfall of a gay man in 1920s Paris; "Tel quel" (1926), denouncing social and religious hypocrisy and encouraging women to speak up for themselves; and "Leçons d'amour" (1929). Odette Dulac Odette Dulac (14 July 1865 – 3 November 1939) was a French actress, singer and "diseuse" in the manner of Yvette Guilbert. Dulac was born in Aire-sur-Adour. She became a militant feminist and novelist. "La houille rouge: les enfants de la violence" ("The Red Coal", 1916) narrated the horrors of raped and impregnated Frenchwomen at the time the First World War was being