Swan Lake/Don Quixote review " Xander Parish earns his Mariinsky wings
Royal Opera House, LondonThe British dancer is made a company principal after starring as Prince Siegfried opposite the dazzling Viktoria TereshkinaAt the beginning of the lakeside scene in the Mariinsky Ballet's production of Swan Lake, tiny mechanical swans stagger jerkily across a painted backdrop. But the second these stage toys are replaced by graceful ballerinas, kitsch is superseded by something close to holin…