Nina Sayers

Nina Sayers was a ballet dancer in New York City. She died on stage at the end of a representation of Tchaïkovsky's Swan Lake, having her stomach severely injured, allegedly by a piece of broken glass later found in her dressing-room. The cirsconstances of her death remain mysterious, as Sayers apparently performed her final scene with her stomac already injured.

Following an idea from the ballet's director, she was playing both the White Swan and the Black Swan. Her performance on the night of her death was described as incredible by the public.