Swan Lake Unfolded

arts · EN

Swan Lake Unfolded uses popular culture as a playground for learning about ourselves and the world around us. This first season is part of a larger project, “Popular Culture Movements,” which maps how cultural touchstones move through media (and what that means). So Swan Lake Unfolded really isn’t solely about Swan Lake—it’s about myths, parody, music, history, games, dancing, food, memory, and more! It’s a celebration of reinvention and what the past reveals about our present and the kinds of futures we want to create… How do we do this? This season we dive into three streaming tv shows—Hulu's The Handmaid’s Tale, Ted Lasso, and Bridgerton—to explore how references to Swan Lake open up larger conversations around identity, love, community, and art. Through podcast episodes that involve solo sessions, group chats, and interviews, we question how popular culture is a portal to thinking through ways of moving through