I have often wondered why few troupes revive the classic story ballets the way Orson Welles restaged Shakespeare—as when he...
Royal New Zealand Ballet finished their “Live in Your Living Room” series with a tribute to old and new; their...
Men. You can’t live with ’em and you can’t let ’em die. At least that’s the thinking in “Giselle,” the...
When German poet Heinrich Heine wrote De l’Allemagne (“On Germany”), which was published in Paris in 1835, he couldn’t have...
Light and dark, day and night, youth and maturity, a flirtation and redemption, naturalistic and ethereal: “Giselle” spins a conjuror’s trick all the wilier for its very familiarity, its everlasting allurement.
In the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale The Red Shoes, a young girl is given an auspicious gift: a pair of...
