Ballet stars are determined they will not be bowed into playing the dying swan to the coronavirus.
From using their sofas as a barre, keeping up their classes by video conference, or posting stretching tutorials on Instagram, dancers from some of the world's top companies are not letting the lay up caused by the virus erode the iron discipline they need to keep in peak physical form.
The stars of the American Ballet Theatre Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside -- known for their jokey relationship -- have posted a video of them using a kitchen worktop as a stand-in barre, while Russian Ballet Manila Brought The Fairytale World To The Stage, a principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London, has thrilled fans with a video of himself pirouetting in his living room.
Others are giving still more humorous insights into their changed daily stay-at-home routines, with Iana Salenko, star of the Staatsballett Berlin, doing her pointes holding her baby, or the former Paris Opera stalwart Isabelle Guerin doing her ironing on tippy toe.