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aka "The Wonderful World of Disney" - USA (new title) ... aka "Walt Disney" - USA (new title) ... aka "Walt Disney Presents" - USA (new title) Odette | The Swan Princess Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The Swan Princess Wiki Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Princess Odette Princess Odette is the female protagonist in all five movies of The Swan Princess, and is basically the title character. She is Prince Derek 's beloved wife and a loving, caring mother of an adopted daughter named Alise . Contents Edit She is kind, gentle and sweet to everyone she loves and cares about. She is also very brave and courageous when faced with dangerous situations and is not afraid to speak her mind. She is the only one who can change into a swan by day and regain her human form by night. Roles in the Movies Odette is born to the aged King William and is welcomed by the kingdom's people.

King William holding baby Odette in his arms. Rothbart , an evil sorcerer, plots to conquer King William's kingdom with dark magic but fails when the king sends a surprise party to attack Rothbart's tower. Rothbart is then banished from the kingdom. Before he leaves, Rothbart vows that he will take everything that the king owns and loves. Years later, Odette is brought together with young prince Derek , a young prince. King William and Queen Uberta hope that their children will fall in love and marry when they are older, thus joining the two kingdoms. However, the two children do not get along well. They fight and play pranks on each other every summer throughout their adolescence. Young Odette and Derek meet for the first time. As adults, Odette is forced to meet again with Derek. She is reluctant to do so until she sees him and falls in love with him. During the ball, Derek announces to arrange their wedding immediately and tells Odette that he wants to marry her for her beauty. When Odette asks Derek what else matters to him besides beauty, he replies, "What else is there?" This makes Odette upset and she rejects him once again.

The next day, Odette and King William make their return home but are stopped by Rothbart, who turns into the Great Animal and attacks them. King William's injured captain returns to Queen Uberta's castle and informs Derek about the attack. Derek quickly rushes to the scene, only to find a dying King William and Odette gone. Rothbart takes Odette to his lair at Swan Lake and puts a transformation spell on her, which turns her into a white swan by day and a human once again by night in the lake under the moonlight. He mentions that the spell can only be broken when the man she loves made a vow of everlasting love and proves it to the world. Odette's transformation back into a human. Rothbart asks her to marry him so he can take control the kingdom legally, but she refuses to do so as she is in love with Derek. She hopes that Derek will come to rescue her. During her imprisonment, she befriends a turtle named Speed and a frog called Jean-Bob . One day, an injured puffin bird named Puffin crashes near them and is nursed back to health by Odette. Puffin soon devises a plan to reunite Odette with Derek.

They would lure Derek to Swan Lake at night, where he could see Odette transform into a human. Puffin and Odette find Derek in the woods, but he mistakes Odette for the Great Animal and tries to kill her using his bow and arrows. She quickly flies back to Swan Lake as the night gets closer, with Derek following her. When she transforms back into her normal self, the two share a short-lived reunion, with Derek telling Odette to come to the ball tomorrow night to meet him there. As he left, Rothbart appeared from behind the tree, carrying Derek's bow and finds out about the ball. Odette weeps when Rothbart tells that there will be no full moon the next night and she is unable to transform back to her normal self again. The next night, she is imprisoned in the castle dungeon, together with Bromley , who is lost in the woods when hunting down the "Great Animal" together wtih Derek. Rothbart sends his old hag, Bridget , disguised as Odette under his spell, to the ball, to trick Derek by saying his vows of everlasting love to the wrong person.

Puffin, Jean-Bob and Speed helps to free Odette from the dungeon and she quickly flies to the ball, hoping that she will get there in time to warn Derek but finds all the way into the castle was blocked, much to her disappointment. As Derek made his vows to the fake Odette, she suddenly feels weaker due to Rothbart's spell that drains her life source, thus killing her. Rothbart made an appearance after Derek made his vows and reveals his plan to him. Derek quickly rushes back to Swan Lake to meet Odette again for the last time. Odette weakly flies back to Swan Lake and was transformed back to her human form as she touches the ground. Before she dies, she tells Derek that she loves him and dies. Odette and Derek are happily married. Add a photo to this gallery Heartbroken and enraged, Derek asks Rothbart to bring Odette back to life but Rothbart refuses and only promises to bring her back if Derek succeeds to kill him. Derek engages in an intense fight against Rothbart, who turns into the "Great Animal" once more, and overpowers him, nearly killing Derek.

Puffin remembers the bow that Rothbart threw into the lake and sends Jean-Bob to fetch it. Bromley escapes from the dungeon through the hole Speed made and gives Derek an arrow to shoot Rothbart with. Derek fires the arrow at Rothbart's chest, killing him and crashes into the lake. The spell was broken and Odette comes back to life. Derek says that he truly loves her for her courage and kindness and he always truly loved her for that. At the end of the film, Derek and Odette were married before going to the moonlight bridge and romantically kiss as the credits start to roll. The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain (The Swan Princess: The Secret of the Castle) Edit Odette is very worried about her relationship when Derek could no longer spend his time with her after becoming King in the first movie. When Clavius locks her in the tower, she asks Puffin, Bridgett, Speed and Jean-Bob to transform her back into a swan to warn Derek but she rescues him from the quicksand. She was almost thrown into the lava pool by Knuckles while she was tied up, but was rescued by Derek.

After defeating Clavius, she transforms back into a human when the moon's reflection touches her. The Swan Princess III: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure (The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom) Edit Derek and Odette are busy preparing for the Festival Days holiday for the kingdom when an evil sorceress named Zelda sneaks into the castle to find the notes of the all-powerful magical orb known as the Forbidden Arts. Odette was later kidnapped by Zelda, and Derek must give the pieces of the notes to Zelda that he had stolen from the Forbidden Arts journal in order to release Odette. Zelda turns Odette into a swan and trapped her in a magical cage. Derek comes to the rescue and Odette tries to fly away from the magic orb that was meant to kill her. Puffin later informed Derek that Odette has been killed. Devastated, Derek breaks down and cries for her loss. When the notes was burned, the flames take shape of a swan and Odette herself materializes, returns back to life.

Derek and Odette oversee the festival and asks Derek how he feels about the kingdom, since there is no more magic and in reply, he says "So long as you're here ,Odette, there will always be magic." She and Derek share a romantic, passionate kiss, which ends the third movie. Edit Odette and Derek had a special celebration as it is their first Christmas together as husband and wife. When everybody is having another behavior, she notices that Rothbart, as a ghostly spirit, is behind all of this. Rothbart tries to destroy Christmas by using his powers to make everyone become angry. She tries to break the evil spell on Queen Uberta and Lord Rogers and succeeds. The spell was broken but Rothbart has other plans. One Christmas Eve, he appears and kidnaps Odette, changing her into a swan once again. Derek, who fought him once in the first Swan Princess movie, comes to the rescue. Odette watches the fight and when it seems that everything is lost, she realizes the only way to save everything is to sing. Rothbart is defeated once more and Derek dies in her arms, but she begin to sing, leading the spirits of Christmas to revive him.

The Christmas tree was restored and all are honoring towards Derek and Odette. Chronologically, this movie takes place between the first and second films. Odette says it is their first Christmas together as husband and wife. However, in The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain, they had celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary. Edit Odette and Derek are happy as always while a group of flying squirrels called Scullians think that Odette is evil due to an ancient prophecy. She helps the woodcutter along with Derek to chop wood. The two Scullians attack Odette and leads her to a tramp but failed as Derek rescues her. The Evil Force is seeking for a glowing green stone to destroy the Swan Princess for centuries but failed. The Evil Force burns a house and a man with his daughter, Alise, are trapped inside. Derek helps Alise's father out from the burning house but before he dies, he asks Derek to take care of Alise. Derek promises with Odette to raise Alise as their daughter together. Alise wakes up and realizes that she is in the palace.

As Odette brushes Alise's hair, Alise starts to cry and Odette comforts her, remembering how she lost her own father, King William, when Rothbart had abducted her several years ago. She promises Alise that she will always be there for her and Alise had confidence in her new family but refuses to speak. Alise starts to like her new family but a nightmare troubles her and Odette sings her a lullaby to comfort her. The next morning, she and Derek decided to adopt her as their own child and Queen Uberta is happy to become a paternal grandmother. Alise was abducted by some Scullians and Odette, together with Derek, are off to save her. The flying squirrels prepared some traps to eliminate the Swan Princess but fails. One of the flying squirrels nearly killed Derek by sending him a poison arrow. Another Scullian helps Derek and Odette was glad. Later, she sees the metal box with the green glowing stone that can destroy the Swan Princess. Odette vows to find Alise and was nearly killed by Mangler, the leader of the Scullians. Sqully saves her and Odette tries to free Alise but fails.

Alise, speaks for the first time, tells Odette to break the orange colored crystal orb. Odette tries to break it but the Forbidden Arts appears and is now capable of withstanding Odette's presence with the great power of the glowing stone. Sqully sacrifices himself to save Odette. A worried Odette starts to find Alise and Alise cried out "Mommy". Odette is happy that she is all right. The movie ends with Alise, the official princess of the royal family, together with Odette and Derek as a happy family. Appearance Edit Odette has long, golden wavy hair, lightly tanned skin, and amethyst eyes. (Her abnormal eye color may represent her as a very special and unique character.) As a swan, her feathers are white with a golden stripe on the middle of her head (maybe to resemble the color of her hair in human form) and violet/blue eyes. Adult: She wears a sleek white evening gown with blue-green puffs on both of her shoulders with long fitted sleeves when she first meets Derek as an adult. However, Odette usually wears a white dress with long puffed sleeves and blue lining in most of The Swan Princess films.

Child: She wears a pale pink dress and dark-pink on the top with long sleeves, pale pink and dark-pink stripes on her crown. Teenager: She wears a purple gown with dark purple border around her shoulders. Ball: Odette (actually Bridget in disguise) wears a sleek black and red dress with the golden necklace. Wedding: She wears a swan-like dress and a crown that matches. Briefly in the first movie and usually in the sequels, Odette wears the golden heat-shaped locket with a swan engraving, which was given to her by four-year-old Derek when she was a baby. In the fourth movie, she still wears the same dresses from the first three movies. Party: She wears the same dress from the first movie except for gold accents. In the fifth movie, she still wears the same green dress that she wears when she met Derek as adults in the first movie but the color of her clothes drastically changed. Instead of wearing her modern-like dress, she wears a blouse with a black vest, dark purple cropped pants and a pair of black boots.

Quotes Edit "Is beauty all that matters to you?" - Odette asking Derek whether he truly cares for her being herself "I need to know that he loves me for just for being me," - Odette answering King William's question. "I can only kiss the man I love..." - Odette talking to Jean-Bob "Speed, make him understand" - asking Speed to explain to Jean-Bob why she cannot kiss Jean-Bob "Go ahead then!! But I'll never give you my father's kingdom!" - Odette talking to Rothbart "I will never be yours... you creature!! I will marry Prince Derek and you cannot stop me!!" - a furious Odette talking to Rothbart. "If you want to stop me, you'll have to kill me." Escape from Castle Mountain "I can see why I married you. You're so good at saying you're wrong." "Change me into a swan!" "That's him ! He's got the Orb!

The Forbidden Arts-As long as he has it, I'm stuck as a swan." The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure "You found Rothbart's formula for the Forbidden Arts, and you didn't tell me?" "Derek, nothing good can come from those notes. You must destroy them!" "You'll never get away with this." -to Zelda after she abducted her "Promise me, Derek: There's no magic in the castle." The Swan Princess Christmas "Shoo Little Fella, Shoo" - Odette to 9 "Do What You Want With Me But You'll Never Destroy Christmas" "Did That Just Happen?" `Swan Lake' a true test of skill - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel `Swan Lake' a true test of skill dance The duality of this ballet's lead role challenges dancers May 4, 2007|By Diane Hubbard Burns, Sentinel Dance Critic Swan Lake, more than any other ballet, is emblematic of ballet itself. And the image it conjures -- the ballerina in white tutu and plumed headdress, whose unlikely dilemma is to be human and bird, fact and fantasy -- has captured imaginations for more than a century.

The ballet is a benchmark for any classical company. And its central character -- the contrasting white swan/black swan, Jekyll-and-Hyde role of Odette/Odile -- is a proving ground for any ballerina. FOR THE RECORD - **********CORRECTION OR CLARIFICATION PUBLISHED MAY 4, 2007********** An article on Page 47 of today's Calendar section, which was printed in advance, about Orlando Ballet's Swan Lake reported incorrectly the date when Zoica Tovar will perform the lead role. She is scheduled to dance at the May 12 evening performance. ********************************************************************** "I think it is the hardest role for a ballerina because in the same ballet you have to show two different characters," says Zoica Tovar, a Cuban-trained, nine-year veteran of the Orlando Ballet. She is one of four company dancers who will take on Odette/Odile for the first time in next week's Orlando premiere of the company's Swan Lake production.

With sets and costumes from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, live music by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, and staging by guest artists Denise Schultze and Louis Godfrey -- who have spent eight weeks working with the dancers -- this is Orlando Ballet's first Swan Lake in eight years. "The dual role is key," says Schultze of the ballet's lead role, which she performed as a founding member of the Johannesburg (South Africa) City Ballet and has taught to many dancers since. "This is where a lot of ballerinas make their mark." And have since 1895, the premiere of the revered Marius Petipa-Lev Ivanov production for the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. First the ballerina plays Odette, the woman transformed to a swan by evil sorcerer Rothbart. Then she is Odile, Rothbart's daughter and Odette's evil lookalike, who attends Prince Siegfried's coming-of-age ball to seduce him into betraying Odette. Because Rothbart's spell can only be broken by a man swearing eternal love for Odette, Odile's venomous success is gentle Odette's undoing.

The difficulty of double duty Dance scholars have marveled at the ballet's symmetry -- its balance of light and dark through music and dance -- and speculated on the metaphorical meaning of its dual swans. But for ballerinas dancing the role, Odette/Odile presents more of an acting and dancing challenge than a philosophical one. "In the prologue, you're happy," says Tovar, 32, who will dance the May 12 evening performance with her husband, Andres Estevez, as the prince. "Then Rothbart gets you. In the second act, you're very scared and timid. In the third, as Odile, you're very mean -- a very sarcastic person. And in the fourth, you have to come back to the person in the second act -- but very sad because the prince betrayed you. "You have to give all that to the audience for them to understand who you are," she says. "Artistically, that's the most difficult." Chiaki Yasukawa, 26, will dance Odette/Odile at the Orlando opening Thursday with Eddy Tovar (Zoica's brother) as her prince.

She always dreamed of doing this role, she says, and her parents and childhood ballet teacher are flying in from Japan, to see her debut. "You have to have two faces. You have to be a very good actress, because you are the one telling the story," she says. "You're trying to find the balance between technical and emotional," says Caitlin Valentine, 21, who makes her Odette/Odile debut opposite guest artist Rasta Thomas on the May 11 performance, and with Yoshi Okada at the May 13 matinee. "To get into the role I've been watching videos of [Natalia] Markova and [Margot] Fonteyn." Valentine says. "The hardest part is the stamina . . . and getting the two swans as different as possible. "The white swan is much more slow and controlled. And the black -- it's almost fun to play this mean character. It's anger relief or something." For Jessica Sibley, 30, learning Odette/Odile has been "one of the best experiences of my career." She will dance with Orlando Ballet newcomer Brooklyn Mack at the May 12 matinee and May 13 evening programs.

"We have four people coaching us -- it's the detail that's amazing. You really feel like you're creating something." Sibley often has performed the short, arm-fluttering solo The Dying Swan, which is unrelated to Swan Lake. "One of the big challenges for me was to get out of doing Dying Swan," she says. "Denise [Schultze] says Odette is sad, but the dying swan is dying. She said we have to make everything simpler and bigger. "You feel almost naked because you're not covering up with all these fussy little movements." Working with differences Since they retired as dancers, Schultze and her husband, Godfrey, have made a career of teaching and staging the classics. Teaching four ballerinas simultaneously requires using their differences, she says. "They are all learning the same choreography, but they're all completely different," she says. "They all have individual feelings about what this woman has gone through. . . . Otherwise, it wouldn't be very interesting for us." Sibley calls the dual-swan role "the ultimate challenge for a ballerina." "It involves everything a ballerina has to be," she says.

"The technique is demanding, the artistry is demanding, and you have to be two opposing characters. It's the whole package." MORE: Articles about Odette - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel By Eloísa Ruano González, Orlando Sentinel , November 6, 2012 Lake County Commissioner Jimmy Conner vanquished challenger Michael Odette, winning a second four-year term in today's election. With 102 of 103 precincts counted Conner, a Republican, won 64 percent of the vote to 36 percent for Odette, a no-party affiliation candidate. Conner previously served three School Board terms. "It's a wider margin than I thought it would be," Conner said. "God's blessed me. I've got a lot of supporters. " He said he works hard for Lake County. Advertisement Pentagon courts seasoned soldiers By Stephen Hudak, Sentinel Staff Writer, February 10, 2007 TAVARES -- Assistant State Attorney Michael Odette ships out today for Iraq, the 53-year-old Army reservist's fourth tour of duty in the war zone.

"I'm kind of afraid to ask him exactly what he does over there," Circuit Judge T. Michael Johnson said. "It must be some super-secret, highly classified, James Bond kind of stuff if they're calling on him again." Odette, a military intelligence officer who became a grandfather again this week, laughs at the notion, saying what he usually does isn't really that hush-hush. LOCAL By Eloísa Ruano González, Orlando Sentinel , October 28, 2012 A retired prosecutor and former deputy sheriff has been attempting to unseat County Commissioner Jimmy Conner from as far as the Philippines more than 9,000 miles away. Mike Odette filed his paperwork to run against Conner, who's seeking a second four-year term for District 3, while stationed in Basilan, where he was training the Philippine National Police for this past year as a civilian employee with the U.S. Department of Justice . He did most of his campaigning from the remote southern island, considered a combat zone because the number of Islamic militants operating there. LOCAL Balfour Drive, Winter Park...

October 21, 1994 FRANCES ROURK ODETTE, 78, 196 Balfour Drive, Winter Park, died Sunday, Oct. 16. Mrs. Odette was a secretary at Winter Park Securities. Born in Michigan, she moved to Central Florida in 1971. She was a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Winter Park. Survivors: two nieces; one nephew. Carey Hand Cox-Parker Funeral Home, Winter Park. LOCAL Judicial candidate headed to war By Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, December 22, 2009 TAVARES -- U.S. Army Reserve Officer Michael Odette, a declared candidate for Lake County judge, may have to delay his campaign until mid-summer after receiving notice that he will be deployed next month to Afghanistan. Odette, 56, a felony prosecutor for State Attorney Brad King, has served four combat tours in Iraq.

An Army reserve major and military intelligence officer, Odette said his orders now call for him to serve a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, where President Barack Obama plans to send 30,000 more troops in the next 18 months to defeat heavily armed factions thought to be aligned with al-Qaida. LOCAL Yalaha man readies for 3rd trip to Iraq October 29, 2005 TAVARES -- Assistant State Attorney Michael Odette bid farewell to colleagues Friday at the Lake County Judicial Complex, taping a sign to his office door: "Gone to war." Odette, 52, who prosecutes felons in civilian life, has been summoned to active duty in Iraq with the Army Reserve for the third time since the war began March 20, 2003. "It's tough on the family," he said. Odette, assigned to protect oil pipelines in his previous stint with the reserves, leaves his wife, Geri, and their children, Robby and Katy, at the family's home in Yalaha.

ENTERTAINMENT Dual Ballerinas Will Dance Roles By Diane Hubbard Burns Sentinel DANCE CRITIC, May 9, 1993 Swan Lake's Odette and Odile, the swan queen and her nemesis, is ballet's famous dual role, usually danced by one ballerina. But occasionally, as in this week's Southern Ballet Theatre production, the roles are performed by two dancers.Odette, the white swan, is actually a woman under the spell of the evil sorcerer Rothbart. He has made her a swan from dawn to dusk, allowing her to return to human form during darkness. She can be saved from her fate only if a man swears her his undying love, and Prince Siegfried is prepared to do so. Odette dances only in the second and fourth acts. LOCAL Kevorkian Leaves Body At Hospital Near Detroit May 22, 1998 ROYAL OAK, Mich. - Jack Kevorkian left a woman's body at the suburban Detroit hospital where he was arrested this month during a scuffle with police, a hospital administrator said Thursday.

Michael Odette, one of Kevorkian's attorneys, told the Detroit Free Press that the retired pathologist took the body of Emma Kassa, 68, of Xenia, Ohio, to William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak late Tuesday. An administrative supervisor at the hospital who would not give her name confirmed the newspaper's account. LOCAL Palm Ave., Winter Park, died... July 19, 1991 DANIEL M. HUMMEL, 70, 1531 Palm Ave., Winter Park, died Thursday. Born in Orange, N.J., he moved to Winter Park from New Jersey in 1969. He was a retired investigator for Walt Disney World. Survivors: wife, Odette M.; son, James H. II, Winter Park; daughter, Donna Elaine, Winter Park; two grandchildren; one great-granddaughter. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Goldenrod. LOCAL Judicial candidate headed to war By Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, December 22, 2009 TAVARES -- U.S.

Army Reserve Officer Michael Odette, a declared candidate for Lake County judge, may have to delay his campaign until mid-summer after receiving notice that he will be deployed next month to Afghanistan. Odette, 56, a felony prosecutor for State Attorney Brad King, has served four combat tours in Iraq. An Army reserve major and military intelligence officer, Odette said his orders now call for him to serve a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, where President Barack Obama plans to send 30,000 more troops in the next 18 months to defeat heavily armed factions thought to be aligned with al-Qaida. LOCAL 'Shows you what drugs can do': Lake bank robber gets 15 years By Stephen Hudak, Sentinel Staff Writer, August 30, 2008 TAVARES -- A bank robber with a $1,000-a-day drug habit was sentenced this week to 15 years in prison. "It just shows you what drugs can do to somebody," said Assistant State Attorney Michael Odette, referring to Robert Morgan. Morgan, 48, admitted that he robbed United Southern Bank at U.S.

Highway 27 and County Road 48 on April 14, a crime in which he was armed with a knife. He also is a suspect in an armed holdup of a bank in Brevard County, where authorities say Morgan's mother lived. LOCAL Ballet classic shines in new production By Diane Hubbard Burns, Sentinel Dance Critic, May 11, 2007 Swan Lake is a transformational ballet in which the essence of existences changes: The ballerina is a swan who becomes human and then a swan again. The prince is a self-centered youth who becomes a man capable of love and sorrow. It exemplifies the heroic, Romantic ideal that spirit can transform the flesh, that the highly unlikely is possible. And the stunning new production of Swan Lake that Orlando Ballet unveiled Thursday is its own heroic, transformational story: A little ballet troupe that, with spunk and grit, grew up into a majestic, fully plumed classical company. ENTERTAINMENT `Swan Lake' a true test of skill By Diane Hubbard Burns, Sentinel Dance Critic, May 4, 2007 Swan Lake, more than any other ballet, is emblematic of ballet itself.

And the image it conjures -- the ballerina in white tutu and plumed headdress, whose unlikely dilemma is to be human and bird, fact and fantasy -- has captured imaginations for more than a century. The ballet is a benchmark for any classical company. And its central character -- the contrasting white swan/black swan, Jekyll-and-Hyde role of Odette/Odile -- is a proving ground for any ballerina. "I think it is the hardest role for a ballerina because in the same ballet you have to show two different characters," says Zoica Tovar, a Cuban-trained, nine-year veteran of the Orlando Ballet. LOCAL Pentagon courts seasoned soldiers By Stephen Hudak, Sentinel Staff Writer, February 10, 2007 TAVARES -- Assistant State Attorney Michael Odette ships out today for Iraq, the 53-year-old Army reservist's fourth tour of duty in the war zone. "I'm kind of afraid to ask him exactly what he does over there," Circuit Judge T. Michael Johnson said.

"It must be some super-secret, highly classified, James Bond kind of stuff if they're calling on him again." Odette, a military intelligence officer who became a grandfather again this week, laughs at the notion, saying what he usually does isn't really that hush-hush. LOCAL Odette Bilheux, 63, helped run popular La Normandie Restaurant By Tammie Wersinger, Sentinel Staff Writer, December 29, 2005 Leaving France for the United States was Andre Bilheux's childhood dream -- a desire that his wife did not initially share. However, Odette Bilheux gradually embraced the dream as she saw her family and business flourish in Central Florida. "She wasn't too happy at first," he said. "But she came to love it here and would never leave." Odette Bilheux, who helped her husband run the popular La Normandie Restaurant, died Saturday of cancer. She was 63. The journey from France to Orlando took the Bilheuxes several years. LOCAL Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte... March 12, 1986 ODETTE D.

BOUTROS, 38, 405 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, died Monday. Born in Egypt, she moved to Altamonte Springs from there in 1981. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church of Central Florida. Survivors: husband, Ramzi; son, Samuel, Altamonte Springs. Carey Hand Guardian Chapel, Orlando. ENTERTAINMENT `Swan Lake' a true test of skill By Diane Hubbard Burns, Sentinel Dance Critic, May 4, 2007 Swan Lake, more than any other ballet, is emblematic of ballet itself. And the image it conjures -- the ballerina in white tutu and plumed headdress, whose unlikely dilemma is to be human and bird, fact and fantasy -- has captured imaginations for more than a century. The ballet is a benchmark for any classical company. And its central character -- the contrasting white swan/black swan, Jekyll-and-Hyde role of Odette/Odile -- is a proving ground for any ballerina.

"I think it is the hardest role for a ballerina because in the same ballet you have to show two different characters," says Zoica Tovar, a Cuban-trained, nine-year veteran of the Orlando Ballet. Yalaha man readies for 3rd trip to Iraq October 29, 2005 TAVARES -- Assistant State Attorney Michael Odette bid farewell to colleagues Friday at the Lake County Judicial Complex, taping a sign to his office door: "Gone to war." Odette, 52, who prosecutes felons in civilian life, has been summoned to active duty in Iraq with the Army Reserve for the third time since the war began March 20, 2003. "It's tough on the family," he said. Odette, assigned to protect oil pipelines in his previous stint with the reserves, leaves his wife, Geri, and their children, Robby and Katy, at the family's home in Yalaha. Who is Odette? - BalletHub Who is Odette? March 06th, 2016 Question: Who is Odette? Odette, danced by Viktoria Tereshkina, makes her first entrance in Swan Lake.

Photo by Dave Morgan Odette is a leading female character in the ballet Swan Lake. The character is opposite to another female character, Odile, typically danced by the same ballerina in a single performance. Odette is the Swan Queen who was once a beautiful princess. She had a spell cast on her by the evil sorcerer, Von Rothbart, which turned her into a swan, only ever returning to her human form at night when the moon is high above. She is bound to a nearby lake in the scenes of the ballet, along with many other women-turned-swans under the same spell. The only way for the evil spell placed on Odette to be broken is for her to find eternal love. This begins to happen shortly after her first appearance in the second act. The prince first sees her as a swan but then sees her transform into her human form and soon falls in love. Odette and the prince’s meeting is cut short as Von Rothbart appears. The prince is later tricked at his birthday celebration that night, thinking that Von Rothbart’s daughter, Odile, is actually Odette.

He swears his love for Odile and asks her hand in marriage (as a heart-broken Odette watches through the castle window) but soon realizes he was tricked. The prince runs to the lake to beg for forgiveness and re-pledge his love for Odette who then forgives him. Different versions of Swan Lake have different fates for Odette. Some where she and the prince defeat the evil sorcerer, the spell is broken and true love prevails, and others where she is doomed to be a swan forever and decides to tragically kill herself, among others. Irina Dvorovenko as Odette in Swan Lake. Photo by Gene Schiavone The role of Odette is a principal or leading role and requires exceptional ability in adagio work and, equally important, emotional acting, along with the ability to carry a show. A ballerina is often put to the task of performing both Odette and the opposite-in-style and personality Odile. This showcases her ability to be as equally sharp as a devious character performing Odile as she is soft and delicate as the Swan Queen Odette, both requiring exceptional strength and polished technique.

If a ballerina can not do both, they often do not perform either or must share the roles with another ballerina. Odile: Ballet’s best bad girl | The Australian Ballet Odile: Ballet’s best bad girl 02 July 2013 | By Rose Mulready Marilyn Jones as Odile in Peggy van Praagh's Swan Lake. Photography The Australian Ballet Olivia Bell as Odile in Anne Woolliams' Swan Lake. Photography Jim McFarlane Lucinda Dunn as Baroness von Rothbart in Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake. Photography Liz Ham Lana Jones as Odile and Andrew Killian as Siegfried in Stephen Baynes' Swan Lake. Photography Jeff Busby Black swan, owl-shaped spirit, or snaky seductress? For such a dramatic art form, classical ballet is remarkably short on villains – particularly female ones.

Bar a couple of witches, a wili and a stepmother, the villainess gets to shine in a sparse handful of ballets: The Sleeping Beauty has the vengeful fairy Carabosse (sometimes played by a man), who memorably plucks hair from the scalp of an unfortunate courtier; La Bayadére has Gamzatti, the scheming vamp who plants a snake in her rival’s fruit basket. But the undoubted queen of ballet badness is Odile, the black-mirror replica of the heroine Odette in Swan Lake. Glittering darkly, tempting the Prince away from his true-love vow in a thrilling pas de deux, Odile steals the show every time. She lives firmly in the modern imagination as the Black Swan, but she started life as a mere enchantress. In the character list for Swan Lake’s initial 1877 production Odile appears only as von Rothbart’s daughter, “the exact replica of Odette”. In the 1895 reworking of the ballet by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov she is again “the replica of Odette”. Nothing is said about swans or even blackness.

True, in the 1895 version Odile wore a dark dress, but Ponomarayev’s costume drawings for this production show a flashy gown adorned with an immense star burst of paler colour on the bodice and paler rays almost entirely covering the skirt, giving a rainbow effect; in Margaret Fleming-Makarian’s book Symbolism in Nineteenth Century Ballet (2012), the colours are described as “pale pink, blue and yellow”. Fleming-Makarian also points out her headdress, “a yellow band of twin serpents”. Odile’s incarnation as the black swan, a literal negative image of Odette, seems to be a recent innovation; scholars trace the wearing of the black tutu to a performance of the ballroom act of Swan Lake, given under the title “The Magic Swan”, toured by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the early 1940s.

As late as 1947, in a review for Ballet magazine, the English critic Cyril W Beaumont describes Odile as wearing “a dark green tutu decorated with pale green sequins which gives her a sinister snake-like effect” (shades of the Ponomarayev headdress!). The pairing of a white swan with a wicked snake may have a deeper origin than the serpentine curl of the swan’s neck. In the Russian folktale “Sweet Mikailo Ivanovich the Rover”, which has not a few parellels with the story of Swan Lake, Mikhailo’s beloved of the “sugar mouth”, the white swan Marya, dies and is buried; underground, she turns into her other incarnation, the dragon (or serpent) of the Underworld, and lies in wait to kill him. Mikailo must cut her into bits, clean her body of serpents, and sprinkle her with holy water before they can be married. Against seemingly steep odds, they live happily ever after. Von Rothbart, in many versions of Swan Lake, is a genie who takes the form of an owl.

In his Stories of the Ballets (1937, revised 1949), Beaumont describes the sorcerer as entering the ballroom dressed to “respresent a black swan”, and refers to him as the Knight of the Black Swan. (This recalls Erik Bruhn’s 1967 version of Swan Lake; Bruhn, who had an unhappy relationship with his mother, transforms the ballroom von Rothbart into a baleful Black Queen, who faces off with Siegfried’s mother as if on a chess board.) However, in his 1952 book The Ballet called “Swan Lake”, Beaumont makes no mention of Odile as a swan, black or otherwise. Rather, he suggests that “daughter” is “a more convenient figure of speech for what is clearly a familiar spirit.” As evidence for this theory, he mentions an account of an 1899 production of Swan Lake at the Mariinsky, in which Odile, when her deception is over, turns into an owl.

At a later point, Beaumont says that Odile “normally” wears “a skirt of some colour so that it differs from the white costume worn by Odette … the coiffure is more glamorous and the features made up to suggest hardness and brilliance. In short, Odile is depicted as a rather obvious adventuress.” Swan, owl or glamourpuss, Odile, through the many 20th– and 21st-century versions of Swan Lake, can generally be relied upon to show up. Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake is almost unique in that it does away with her altogether. However, the Snake of the Underworld is not buried that easily. Murphy and his creative team allow her to surface subtly in the characters of both Odette and her nemesis, the Baroness von Rothbart. That Odette and the Baroness, rivals for the Prince’s love, can be seen as somehow paired is set up right at the start of the ballet, in the Prologue. Odette, doubting the Prince’s love, roams the Palace restlessly on the night before her marriage. Hearing his step, she conceals herself in a curtain.

The silky black drapery then seductively reveals a woman’s form, clinging tight to her breast and hips, which the Prince caresses. The curtain is thrust aside – to reveal the Baroness, dressed for the boudoir in a fetching negligee. This intriguing play between Odette and her dark sister Odile, in both their traditional and Murphy forms, weaves throughout the ballet. The Baroness both embodies the Rothbart role – the schemer, the evil one, the engine of Odette’s tragedy – and that of his daughter Odile. She appears most obviously Black Swan-ish at the beginning of the Act III ballroom scene, where, dressed in darkly sparkling brocades, she triumphantly caresses the Prince, holding him in thrall to her charms. Murphy’s choreography for the Baroness is persistently serpentine; she is always twining herself around Siegfried, her arms curling around his neck and head to draw him into the private circle of their bodies. When the Prince visits Odette in her asylum room, she is sent into a frenzy by the sight of the Baroness at the tall windows.

Impatiently checking her watch, dressed in black furs, the Baroness is like an insouciant, negative-image version of the distraught swan queen that beats at the windows of the ballroom in the traditional Swan Lake, trying to prevent her lover’s betrayal. The Prince, in this version, goes to join the Baroness, and Odette clings helplessly to the window from the inside. However, it is Odette, in chiffon-winged white, who triumphs in Murphy’s ball scene (sort of – she gets the guy, but loses her mind), and Odette who gets to whip out fouéttes to the music for Odile’s spectacular Act III variation. Murphy, following what scholars believe to be the original order of the score, moves this music to Act I, and uses it as the soundtrack to Odette’s public breakdown. As she defiantly spins, her demure white lace gown reveals a black underskirt – the dark menace of her madness, which will finally kill her.

(A decade later, this figuring of Odette’s dark side not as a doppelganger but as a cracked aspect of her psychology resurfaces in the Darren Aranofsky film Black Swan.) This symbology is fully developed in the tragic fourth act, where Odette, her fragile mind snapped, returns to the swan fantasies of her Act II asylum hallucinations. This time she’s not coming back, and she and all her swans wear black costumes. Her madness, her dark side, has triumphed; but as she drowns herself, in a spectacular coup de theatre, black gives way to white, torment to peace. Perhaps this white swan, in the Underworld beneath the frozen lake, can be free of all wicked snakes. What’s your best ever Odile moment? See our dancers perform the Black Swan in Stephen Baynes’ traditional version of Swan Lake, playing in Adelaide 5-11 July. Tickets selling fast!

Question: Odette is the central character of which ballet?
Answer: Swan Lake