Love Song: The Triumph and Tragedy of Tchaikovsky

The "Love Theme" ballet duet, which forms the pivotal core of the film, was choreographed especially for Love Song by the internationally renowned dancer and choreographer Yat-Sen Chang, former principal dancer of London's world-famous English National Ballet. The film's dance director was Corinna Chute. After graduating from the Royal Ballet School she performed with ballet, jazz and contemporary companies in Italy and Holland. Later, following her role as European Representative of the Cuban National Ballet School's international ballet courses "CUBALLET", she became Artistic Director of the celebrated Espinosa Chute Centre in the historic town of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, just outside London, where Love Song received its glittering big-screen premiere on 16 February 2014 in front of cast and crew, friends and family and other invited guests. The Love Song pas de deux featuring Tchaikovsky and Zak was given its world stage premiere on 17 August by the Espinosa Dance Project company at the Espinosa Chute Centre Theatre in Berkhamsted. The ballet, called Tchaikovsky's "Love Theme", was part of a mixed-bill programme. It was repeated on 18 August 2013. Starring in the two theatre performances, as in the film itself, was the acclaimed Serbian National Ballet soloist Lloyd Petchey as Tchaikovsky with the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts' much-in-demand Rowen Shone as Eduard Zak. The Lighting Designer for Love Song's two crucial sequences with ballet dancers was the renowned Doz Brook, the man behind the lighting for many stage productions in London's West End.