Odile

Eugenie Markham aka Odile is a head-strong and independent character who is instantly likable.

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This introductory scene helps audiences see Odette and later Odile as lookalike women regularly played by the same ballerina, and not as a relentlessly flapping dancer aiming to look avian.

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Let's hope balletgoers attending their first "Swan Lake" won't be disappointed when Odile remains a seductress in a black tutu.

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Monday's opener, led by Irina Dvorovenko as Odette/Odile, partnered by Jose Manuel Carreño, presented the staging effectively if without real excitement.

These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers Robert Greskovic 2011

With their ruby-red glow, the accented bodices might indicate that ABT's Odette and Odile are as deranged as the film's Nina and have given themselves self-inflicted wounds.

These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers Robert Greskovic 2011

Her Odette and Odile command the space they occupy, but each falls short of the ecstatic release that both roles reveal when most effectively performed.

These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers Robert Greskovic 2011

Mr. Brown's own eccentric and inexplicable costume indication of blood-red detailing at the base of the plunging neckline of both Odette's white and Odile's black tutus predates "Black Swan."

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Along with a chorus of flocking wheeling swans led by Odette and her evil alter ego Odile performed by Olga Sharutenko, male virtuosos Andrei Penkin and Ruslan Novoseltsev take the roles of Prince and his sidekick Benno, while Vadim Yarkov is muscularly wicked as the magician Von Rothbart.

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Instead, it tells us that the female character brought to the great hall by an uninvited Rothbart is his daughter, Odile.

These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers Robert Greskovic 2011