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By composing Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky takes the legend of the pristine bird to create one of the most beautiful pieces ever written for ballet. The choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov will give their letters of nobility to the story of this impossible love between an earthly prince and a princess-bird, and will in turn shape the myth of the dancer-swan, ballerina par excellence. In 1984, by creating his version for the Paris Opera Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev chose to give it a Freudian dimension, illuminating the poetic dream of Tchaikovsky with a desperate depth.