Has enough time elapsed since Black Swan that viewers of Swan Lake won’t be flashing back to wings rupturing gorily through Natalie Portman’s shoulder blades? Oregon Ballet Theatre apparently thinks so. The company is staging Tchaikovsky’s enduring ballet, the Russian-folktale-based story of a princess who’s turned into a swan by a wicked wizard.
Read our full review: "The stellar staging skill of OBT’s Ballet Master Lisa Kipp was apparent, as the unforgiving lines of the swan flocks’ stiff romantic tutus can emphasize even the most minimal of mistakes. There were none to be had in any of the dreamy lakeside sequences, and Iino’s entrance and first pas de deux with Prince Siegfried (Yang Zou) were the highlight of the evening."
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