New show turns ultra-traditional ballet on its head (and upside down in mid-air)

New show turns ultra-traditional ballet on its head (and upside down in mid-air)

Duck Pond is a dazzling mash-up of feathers, flips and fairy-tale reinvention. Photo: Damien Bredburg. If Tchaikovsky wrote Swan Lake after running away to join the circus, it might look a lot like Circa’s Duck Pond. Circa’s adaptation of the iconic ballet masterpiece, merged with classic children’s tale The Ugly Duckling, comes to Griffith Regional Theatre next week. Throughout this tale of swans and hapless princes, audiences can expect the ga…