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A White Demon Love Song
A staple in the repertoire of all major ballet companies, Giselle has always been an audience favourite. Romantic ballet fans will have a sentimental connection with this quintessential story dealing...
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Fun That We Have
Over the past few weeks the big ballet companies have been all over social media flaunting their new seasons, in some cases with fabulous, state of the art, trailers (like San Francisco Ballet and...
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Giselle: Fab or Fail?
Fans of Romantic masterpiece and audience favourite Giselle usually have a choice production against which they measure all others. Over here one of our favorites is Sir Peter Wright’s critically...
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Giselle
Is this ballet for you? Go if: Balanchine said it best “Like Hamlet, Giselle is a classic: it is not only important historically, it also happens to be good (…) People go to see Giselle and to see...
View ArticleReal Life & Fantasy: An Interview with RDB’s Kizzy Matiakis
Last month we were lucky to catch The Royal Danish Ballet’s new production of A Folk Tale, one of Bournonville’s masterpieces. On that occasion, we were particularly taken with soloist Kizzy Matiakis’s...
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The Royal Ballet’s Giselle: A Photo Gallery II
Going, going… Next week we have this season’s only opportunity to see Natalia Osipova take on one of her definitive roles at the Royal Ballet, assuming she will be returning from a recent injury in...
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ENB in Akram Khan’s Giselle
If you have followed this blog for a while, then you already know that Giselle is my favourite ballet. When I first heard that English National Ballet had commissioned Akram Khan to stage a new version...
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Revisiting Akram Khan’s Giselle
After a prolonged gap, the first performance in our autumn dance calendar was English National Ballet’s revival of Akram Khan’s Giselle at Sadler’s Wells last month. The production was hailed a triumph...
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