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Swan song?

That has to do with the fact that she had been contracted to dance more than once during what is called the playing season, playing season as against the off season. Ballet shows are seasonal, as is consistent with seasonal changes in nature. In agriculture, for example, people grow crops, harvest them and have some time to rest, also giving the earth time to rejuvenate.

Ballerinas do likewise. Anyways, Ms. Whelan will give a series of performances during the last playing season and quit the business altogether thereafter.

In this sense, all her performances are seen as swan songs.

Look at it this way, Ms. Whelan is so loved that she deserves to sing more than just one swan song.

And Lucky New Yorkers, too.

All right. Here are media examples of “swan song”:

1. As the Earth continues on its never-ending journey, orbiting around the sun month after month and year after year, our evening view of the Shamokin heavens is turning away from the bright winter constellations and toward the less than awesome spring star patterns on the rise in the east. The bright winter constellations are still hanging in there in the west, but this is their swan song. Next month, most of them will be gone below the western horizon, and we won’t see them in the evening again until late next fall. Many amateur astronomers, including this star-watching lover, agree that until the summer constellations like Cygnus and Scorpio make their appearance, we are officially in the spring doldrums of evening stargazing.