Australian Ballet star Madeleine Eastoe performs Swan Lake all over the world Principal dancers with the Australian Ballet Kevin Jackson and Madeleine Eastoe. IF a dancer's dream is to perform the lead role in Swan Lake, then Madeleine Eastoe has lived it in cities all over the world. The Australian Ballet star this week reprises the role she has danced in London, Paris, Tokyo and New York, but this time she'll be dancing for home-town Melbourne. The Graeme Murphy production, a contemporary adaptation of a classic created for the ballet company's 40th birthday in 2002, was last seen here five years ago. "There wouldn't be many years where I haven't performed it," Eastoe said. It's been part of my career and sat alongside a lot of years that have been significant for me. The ballet's artistic director, David McAllister, said it was one of the company's signature works. "Murphy's Swan Lake is one of our international calling cards and it's almost part of our dancers' DNA," he said. We've toured this production to London, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and, last year, to New York, where we were met with standing ovations from packed houses. Swan Lake runs at the Arts Centre from June 21 to July 1.