Ruth Leon recommends: Giselle – Royal Ballet – Rehearsal
Ruth Leon recommendsGiselle – Royal Ballet – Rehearsal
Click here to watch: Free
3 December 2021 – 2 January 2022
You can’t beat a good Giselle. One of the greatest of all Romantic ballets and a classic tale of love, betrayal and the supernatural.
It doesn’t happen by accident. It takes years of training and weeks of practice and hours of rehearsal. In this video, fascinating for balletomanes (good word, that), Principal Dancers Matthew Ball and Yasmine Naghdi, the Giselle and Albrecht for this production, are coached by legendary teacher, Olga Evreinoff. This is how it happens, this slow, painstaking, step-by-step, movement by movement assembling of perfection.
Whatever you may have thought, dancers are made, not born. No matter how talented, they have to learn how to do it. This video demonstrates that even these dancers, among the Royal Ballet’s best, at the peak of their form, still need the careful help of a master teacher.
They do all this so that you can sit back and watch them make ballet magic.
Giselle – Royal Ballet – Performance
Click here for tickets : £16
3 December 2021 – 2 January 2022
Peter Wright’s traditional production for the Royal Ballet is superbly atmospheric in its telling of Marius Petipa’s classic tale of love, betrayal and the supernatural. Giselle is the classic ballet of the Romantic era – and, for the dancer performing the title role, one of the greatest challenges in the repertory.
Peter Wright’s production, a classic itself, perfectly achieves the dual aspects of the ballet, moving from the naivety of young love between Giselle and Albrecht in the village setting of Act I to the ethereal Wilis in Act II’s eerie moonlit forest. Rich in vivid character detail and poignant depth of feeling, Giselle is a reminder of ballet’s power to move and thrill.
The cast is: Giselle – Yasmine Naghdi, Albrecht – Matthew Ball, Hilarion – Luca Acri , Myrtha – Marianela Nunez – Berthe – Kristen McNally. The music is by Adolphe Adam, and the production and additional choreography are by Peter Wright.
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