Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is ...

"And hopefully one day I could figure something out." Black Swan starred Portman as ballet dancer Nina Sayers, a perfectionist whose psyche spirals under the mounting pressure of her dual role in ...

and Odile (the black swan). In between, Zecheng Liang and Ashton Roxander, fellow principal dancers performing the roles of the Neapolitans, would dance the jumping parts of the coda. Both were ...

ballet dancer Unity Phelan stopped just before launching into the famed 32 fouettés – those crowd-pleasing whiplash turns on one leg performed by Odile, the devious Black Swan. “No fouettés ...