Karen Kain and Frank Augustyn carry the principal roles in the National Ballet's production of Swan Lake at O'Keefe Centre. But Star dance critic Will(...)

Original Toronto Star caption: Karen Kain and Frank Augustyn carry the principal roles in the National Ballet's production of Swan Lake at O'Keefe Centre. But Star dance critic William Littler says Karen Kain is merely a pawn in Eric Bruhn's vision of this ballet. Bruhn has shifted Swan Lake's focus to the male and thus de-poeticized the lake and its contents; he says.