Australian Ballet production of Giselle will give audiences the Wilis

By Michelle Potter
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:51pm, first published March 4 2015 - 1:48pm

When the Australian Ballet arrives in Canberra in May with Maina Gielgud's production of Giselle, it will be bringing audiences something that has been missing from the Canberra stage for some years, at least from our flagship company – an evening-length classic from the international ballet repertoire. Giselle is the kind of ballet that many crave. First performed in Paris in 1841 at the height of the Romantic era, it has a powerful storyline and is full of emotion and drama. It also has many elements that mark it as strongly traditional, especially in the second act when a full corps de ballet, clad in long white tutus, dances together in a moonlit forest.

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