“He was her man, but he done her wrong,” and the vengeful Wilis are out to get him. Get in the mood for Halloween and the supernatural spirits in a beautiful way on Sunday with “Giselle” performed by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Snohomish County’s premiere ballet company, Olympic Ballet Theatre of Edmonds, will perform its version of “Giselle” Saturday evening at the Everett Performing Arts Center. The company operates under ...

Ballet San Antonio is offering free tickets to "Giselle" at the Tobin Center for federal employees to help them cope during ...

The concept of style has all but disappeared from many ballet companies. Aesthetic consistency, attention to historical detail, technical precision throughout the ranks -- these attributes are foreign ...

The miraculously-intact 19th-century choreography of the second act is part of the attraction, but so is the character of Giselle, the peasant girl who, seduced and betrayed by a nobleman in disguise, ...

The romantic wonders of “Giselle” — ballet’s answer to “Hamlet” — include scenes of love, madness and death, with a second act haunted by the eerie beauty of veiled ghosts gliding across the stage.

Giselle is the quintessential Romantic ballet. Premiered in 1841 at the Paris Opera, it reflects many of the preoccupations of Romanticism: nature as a repository of all that’s good, yet also ...