Odette smokes, drinks red wine, and carries her typewriter with her. She is an intoxicated, reflective, and self-assured woman. A kindred spirit of Ingeborg Bachmann. In her version of Tchaikovsky's ballet classic, Lillian Stillwell transforms the voiceless, enchanted swan maiden into a true protagonist, the fairytale creature into a human figure full of emotions, who sometimes angrily throws her pointe shoes to the floor. And whose body occasionally twitches and jerks as if it has to defend itself against too much pressure from the outside and from within.
Melina Solkidou dances this Odette in the red dress with such power and vulnerability, such conflict as she does joyful and free. In the duet with Siegfried, she is an equal partner, sometimes even holding him down beneath her. ...
