Sensuous Woman, Mean Men, Dancing Swans

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THURSDAY, March 27

It’s every little girl’s dream, and no doubt every budding prima ballerina’s, to play the tragic Princess Odette and dance the famous pas de deux with her Prince Siegfried. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, the most enchanting of all classical ballets, has gone through many productions since its 1877 premiere at the Bolshoi Theater. And artistic director Kevin McKenzie’s staging for the American Ballet Theatre features five casts, beginning with Michele Wiles and David Hallberg and followed by Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky; Gillian Murphy and Jose Manuel Carreño; Paloma Herrera and Ethan Stiefel; and Julie Kent and Hallberg. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., dwntwn.; Thurs.-Fri., March 27-28, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., March 29, ?2 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., March 30, 2 p.m.; $25-$95. (213) 365-3500.

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Legendary choreographer Bob Fosse was the only director to win an Academy Award, a Tony and an Emmy in the same year, and the American Cinematheque screens two of his most acclaimed movie musicals. Cabaret (1972), the Weimar-era musical starring Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey and Michael York, garnered Fosse an Oscar for Best Director. And All That Jazz (1979), which was based on his life and featured the late Roy Scheider as a womanizing, drug-abusing and chain-smoking Broadway director who works himself to death, won another four Academy Awards. (Best line: “Don’t bullshit a bullshitter.”) Discussion with York follows the screenings. Aero Theater, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica; Thurs., March 27, ?7:30 p.m.; $10. (323) 466-FILM.