Swan Lake's Odile - Not Always Dressed in Black

[pherank]

Recent Alastair Macaulay posting with b&w photos:

"How fascinating it is to study photographs of Alicia Markova’s Odile in the 1934 Vic-Wells Ballet production of “Le Lac des cygnes” (“Swan Lake”). The role is transformed by the bright - golden? - tutu she wore. It cannot be said too often that Odile was not dressed in black by any company until the 1940s: a stupid coarsening of a subtle role, as if labelling her with Evil round her neck..."

https://www.instagram.com/p/CR9msRzI1tg/

[dirac]

It would be cool to see Odile in scarlet-lady red, but I guess people would think it was the Firebird gatecrashing the party.