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Friday, September 3, 2010

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Giselle

Giselle is the ultimate Romantic ballet, a tale of innocence, betrayal and the redemptive power of true love. English National Ballet’s traditional staging of this 1841 masterpiece moves from the sunny optimism of Giselle’s idyllic village life to a ghostly, moonlit world of mystery and menace.

Giselle is in love with the handsome Duke Albrecht, but when she discovers that he has deceived her she dies of a broken heart. By Giselle's grave in a mist-wreathed forest glade, vengeful spirits of abandoned brides force men to dance to their death. Giselle, cannot bear to see her true love, Albrecht, consigned to such a fate and returns as a ghost to save him.

60 Years
Dame Alicia Markova made it a condition of establishing the company that a production of Giselle was mounted. Giselle has therefore been associated with English National Ballet since the very beginning in 1950.

Mary Skeaping’s production of Giselle remains the most faithful to the romantic style of the original. It was commissioned by Dame Beryl Grey at the time when English National Ballet’s repertoire was being ‘up-graded’ in conjunction with their regular seasons at the London Coliseum.

This new version of Giselle was sensitive to the need to have productions capable of touring to smaller regional venues, in order to fulfil the Company's original vision- taking ballet to the widest geographical audience possible.

Production and Choreography
Mary Skeaping
Music
Adolphe Adam
Original Choreography
Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot revised by Marius Petipa
Design
David Walker
Recreated Lighting
David Mohr