UPDATED: Sept. 27, 2017 at 8:05 p.m.

Tutus cost about $2,000 each and can take up to 90 hours to create. From costumes to detailed sets, the Russian Grand Ballet carefully calculates every piece of its performance to reflect the original atmosphere of “Swan Lake.”

The Russian Grand Ballet will come to Syracuse on Wednesday to showcase its version of the classical performance at the The Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater stage at 7:30 p.m.

“Everyone can recall the main ‘Swan Lake’ theme and the Little Swans dance theme,” said Constantine Pinchuk, artistic director of the Russian Grand Ballet, in an email. ”It is a beautiful fairy tale, also full of technical and dramatic challenges.”

The show will incorporate more than 50 dancers from various countries and backgrounds, Pinchuk said. The company has previously performed in countries such as China, Spain and Mexico, and will tour up and down the East Coast for the next month.

The story of “Swan Lake” has attracted audiences for generations. Princess Odette falls in love with Prince Siegfried, but becomes trapped in the body of a swan by an evil sorcerer.

Siegfried must then save the princess from her curse before she is forced to remain a swan forever. Despite the story’s innate thrill, conveying the tale to an audience through ballet comes with its own challenges, Pinchuk said.

“The principal dances two roles — the black swan and the white swan — and both birds go through a lot,” Pinchuk said. “Changing from swan to human, falling in love and getting tricked and jilted, not to mention the duets and solos.”

Courtesy of The Oncenter

Pinchuk said that while the show may be demanding of both its dancers and visionaries, the payoff is well worth the effort.

Expressing a range of emotions that both Odette, the white swan, and Odile, the black swan, experience as the ballet progresses is a difficult task, but when done successfully, it can make the audience enjoy the show more.

Every movement has a meaning, in the same way that each detail of the costumes and the stage reflect the artistic director’s individual interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s work, Pinchuk said.

The artistic director said the company works to revive a ballet that has been performed countless times since its premiere in 1877. While the show has undergone revisions and has been adapted by other choreographers and directors since then, adjusting a classic formula is no easy task.

Alisa Voronova stars as both Odette and Odile, while her costar Constantine Mayorov plays Siegfried. These dancers, like all dancers, are responsible for completing the artistic director’s vision for the ballet.

Pinchuk said he hopes that his company’s performance will demonstrate to the audience how ballet is meant to be viewed and appreciated.

“The art of ballet, in my point of view, is mostly suitable for young, energetic people with a sparkle in their eyes,” he said, “who treat the traditions of classical ballet with a great care and thrill.”

This post has been updated with appropriate style.

Published on September 27, 2017 at 7:36 pm