 The ballet has been variously interpreted and adapted . The 1917 Russian film The Dying Swan by director Yevgeni Bauer , for example , tells the story of an artist who strangles a ballerina . Maya Plisetskaya re @-@ interpreted the swan simply as elderly and stubbornly resisting the effects of aging , much like herself . Eventually the piece came to be considered one of Pavlova 's trademarks . More recently , Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo perform a parody version that emphasizes every excess dormant in the choreography , and , in 2000 , street theatre artist Judith Lanigan created a hula hoop act based on the Fokine / Pavlova ballet divertissement that has been performed at international street theatre festivals , comedy and burlesque events , and in traditional and contemporary @-@ style circuses . 
