Swan Lake | 32 Fouettés

11 May 2015

Marianela Núñez performs the famous 32 fouettés sequence from Swan Lake in a recent performance at The Royal Ballet. Choreographer Marius Petipa added the sequence specially for Italian ballerina Pierina Legnani in the 1895 version of Swan Lake, a sequence she had first performed in Cinderella (1893).

• Whipping it: Watch fouetté turns demonstrated in Ballet | Step-by-step.
• Find out more about Marius Petipa in our Origins of Ballet film.

This feature complements the Ballet category in the BBC's search for the Young Dancer of 2015.