Flight of the Swan

Synopsis

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as lead ballerina Princess Odette, but the girls in her close-minded ballet school mock her ideas of a 'black swan'.

Director

Ngozi Onwurah

Written by

Ngozi Onwurah

Music

Felix Joseph

Studio

Channel 4 Television

Released

9 October 1992

Genres

Drama