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 (musician) Odette (musician) Georgia Odette Sallybanks, who performs as Odette, is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician who was born in Bath, England and grew up in the inner western suburbs of Sydney. Odette was born to a South African mother and an English father. She began writing music at approximately eight years old. In 2017, Odette released her debut single "Watch Me Read You", a piano ballad incorporating spoken word which she wrote in England in 2015. Odette has cited Joanna Newsom, Laura Mvula and her own grandfather (a jazz pianist during the war) as musical influences, and poets John Keats