Natalia Makarova & Anthony Dowell: Black Swan pas de deux

Thinking of the Black Swan (part II)

Even if one must admit that technique has changed a lot also in the last decades they are eternal for me in this pas de deux. He is the best prince ever and she possesses that certain “wickedness” (or should we call it “meanness”) that makes HER interpretation of Odile simply unique!

Yes, perhaps not the most technically brilliant or secure Odile, but definitely the most dramatically gripping. Watch her eyes harden…