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Abstract

This study aims to derive a new interpretation on Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake by analyzing the dance work's texts based on intertextuality theory and examining the relationship between texts considering the context and their background. According to the intertextuality theory, an author's role is only limited to combine existing texts and images. Therefore, texts in a work can function in a three-dimensional dialogue with a horizontal axis connecting the author and the reader and a vertical axis linking one text to others. This opens infinite possibilities for text interpretation, which goes beyond the work itself and takes a broader view on the three-dimensional dialogue between the author, the reader and other texts. Janet Lansdale has adopted an intertextuality approach to dance analysis. Based on the assumption that a dance and its texts always co-exist, she identifies each element of the work including movements related to dance text, the musical text chosen, images, and ideas, and also investigates how meaning structures interact with each other in the dance. In addition, she defines a choreographer as a person to co-create a new text called "audience," shedding a new light on the role of the audience in creating one piece of dance. Based on a dance analysis framework presented by Lansdale, this paper analyzes Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. The result of the analysis emphasizes on psychological and literary texts found in the relationship between the Prince, the Queen, the Swan and the Girlfriend, and historical text demonstrated in the relationship between the Prince and the Girlfriend. The intertextuality concept helped interpret the relationship between the main character (the Prince) and other characters (the Queen, the Swan, and the Girlfriend) and to find out psychological, literary, and historical texts adopted in the ballet. This study assumes that the dance work appeals to the audience with various backgrounds and points of view thanks to the following reason: a psychological factor targeting the common consciousness and unconsciousness of human beings, a literary factor attracting readers regardless of time, and a historical factor being known to many people. These factors enable a common interpretation of the dance work and also blur the line between fantasy and reality and between characters and the audience.