One can set "Swan Lake" in any locale or period and still dance the traditional steps.
Set on Lake Tahoe on the Nevada-California border, it was long ago overshadowed by glitzier competition in Las Vegas.
Like Rudolf Nureyev, Mr. Wheeldon has set "Swan Lake" inside a room, suggesting that the lakeside encounters of Odette, the swan queen, and Prince Siegfried, as protagonist, are projections of the hero's mind.
When the pope explained that he comes to Castel Gandolfo, a huge palace and estate set on Lake Albano, every summer, Mr. Bush replied: "Yes sir. I understood that and I can see why.
Perhaps appropriately for a spot that would become a prominent film set, the lake did not form naturally but was constructed for private use.
Herodotus indicates that there were navigable channels from Tanis and Pelusium [27], so we have set the Lake of Tanis to be 2 m deep.
In the stage directions for Act I of "Parsifal," set near the sanctuary of the knights of the grail in a mythical region of medieval Spain, Wagner writes that the scene depicts a forest with a deep-set lake in the background.
HOW MUCH: $1,995,000 SIZE 5,0088 square feet PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $398.36 SETTING: This house is in a neighborhood called Kenwood, set between Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles, two lakes in a section of Minneapolis called the Chain of Lakes.
The picturesque Camping La Garangeoire is set among lakes, meadows and woods and offers a host of activities, including crazy golf, trampolines and boating on the lake.
Set among lakes, sandy soil and forests on steppe lands north of Kiev, Chernobyl achieved global notoriety in 1986 when technicians carried out an experiment aimed at testing backup electrical supplies to one of the plant's four reactors.
A 30-lake training set from Faroese lakes was also used to explore the relationships between diatoms and environmental variables and assist in the interpretation of the diatom stratigraphy.
