Her director, Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel), has cast her in
the demanding dual role of the virginal White Swan and the predatory Black Swan in Tchaikovsky's «Swan Lake.»
She herself admits «it's a bit surreal» to be shuffling so rapidly between
dual roles but if her preparations for an assault on the 1500m and 3000m at the IAAF World Indoor Championships — juggling the
demands of being a world - class athlete with the incredibly intensive final year of her veterinary degree — have been unconventional, Muir has reached the start line very much ready to go and in a confident mood.