Incorporating all the original choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, Giselle is restaged for Northern Ballet by Yoko Ichino, who has danced the lead role many times for some of the world’s greatest companies.
Northern Ballet’s Giselle follows the traditional story of the young, sickly peasant girl Giselle who falls in love with the handsome Prince Albrecht. On finding her love is unrequited, and weakened by her ill health, Giselle dies. She is summoned from her grave by the Wilis, the spirits of women betrayed before their wedding days who return to take vengeance on men by dancing them to death. Giselle saves the remorseful Albrecht from his certain fate proving that love can conquer all – even death.
‘Exquisite staging’TQS Magazine
‘radiant performance’York Press
Creative Team
- Music
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- Adolphe Adam
- Staging
- After
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- Jean Coralli
- Jules Perrot
- Reduced Orchestration
- Sets and Costumes
- Lighting Design
- Wardrobe Supervisor
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- Mikhaila Pye
- Assisted by
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- Heather Burtt
- Claire O'Neill
- Wigs & Make-up Supervisor
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- Helen Russell
Header image Pippa Moore, taken by Jason Tozer. Production photos taken by Bill Cooper.
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