Costume designer Roberta Guidi di Bagno scrunched her eyes to get a better look at the nearly finished medieval-style jacket on a standing form in Houston Ballet's wardrobe studio. She wanted to see a ...

One of the most beautiful and timeless ballets ever created graces the silver screen as an extraordinary new production of GISELLE—featuring principal dancer Olga Smirnova, who joined Dutch National ...

New Ballet, the institution that Silicon Valley looks to for excellence in the art of ballet, announced a world premiere restaging by Artistic Director Dalia Rawson of the classical story ballet ...

Lady vampires never go out of style, but calling “Giselle” timeless would be a mistake. Few other ballets have been kept as stylistically pure from start to finish as the Romantic gem created for ...

How does a choreographer approach reconfiguring one of the foundation story ballets? If you’re Stanton Welch, it’s by making the narrative stronger than it already is. Such is the case with his ...

The two-act ballet Giselle premiered in 1841. Today, this story of a peasant girl who falls in love with a nobleman in disguise is considered a classic. There’s a love triangle, a mad scene, and ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Angel Corella is staging the timeless tale, Giselle, at the Academy of Music. "Giselle is one of the classical ballets of the repertoire," says Corella, Artistic Director of ...

Among the many fictional characters who can claim Paris as their home, perhaps none is as universally loved as the ballet heroine Giselle. This pure-hearted innocent, who dies betrayed yet returns as ...

"Giselle" returned to Ballet San Jose Thursday night, after an absence of a dozen years, with a stealth star: Iñaki Urlezaga, of the Royal Ballet of London. Cast opposite Karen Gabay's richly ...

Natalia Osipova as Giselle draws the kind of awestruck, reverent reaction from ballet lovers that still breathes from contemporary descriptions of Marie Taglioni or Vaslav Nijinsky. Osipova’s ...