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en-wikipedia-org-4225		The Dying Swan - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2175	217	74	The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova, who performed it about 4,000 times. Inspired by swans that she had seen in public parks and by Lord Tennyson's poem "The Dying Swan", Anna Pavlova, who had just become a ballerina at the Mariinsky Theatre, asked Michel Fokine to create a solo dance for her for a 1905 gala concert being given by artists from the chorus of the Imperial Mariinsky Opera. The Dying Swan was first performed by Pavlova at a gala at the Noblemen's Hall in Saint Petersburg, Russia on Friday, December 22, 1907.[5] It was first performed in the United States at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City on March 18, 1910.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4225.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4225.txt