PhD candidate Celine Gosselin (she/her), a doctoral student in musicology at Case Western Reserve University, has had a chapter accepted for publication in the Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies, scheduled for release in 2027.
Her chapter, “Reanimating Tchaikovsky: John Neumeier’s Gothic Swan Lake,” examines choreographer John Neumeier’s 1976 reinterpretation of Swan Lake, focusing on how Neumeier re-frames Tchaikovsky’s music to draw out the work’s suppressed Gothic dimensions. Gosselin explores the interpolation of additional Tchaikovsky compositions—including the Méditation from Un souvenir d’un lieu cher and incidental music from Hamlet—as well as Neumeier’s use of choreography from the original Ivanov lakeside scene as a ballet-within-a-ballet. The chapter also traces historical parallels to King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky himself, illuminating the psychological and cultural undercurrents embedded in the original work.