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...choreographed by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli, and set to Adolphe Adam’s moving score, the ballet tells the story of a young peasant girl, Giselle. In Act I, she falls in love with a man disguised as a fellow peasant, who is actually the noble Prince Albrecht. When she learns that he is engaged to another, she goes mad and dies of a broken heart...
...Roman Rykine, as Prince Albrecht, gives a remarkable performance and proves a perfect partner for Ponomarenko’s Giselle. Although his performance is clean in Act I, he truly shines...
...newest member of the Wilis, spirits of young women who have died before their wedding days. The Queen of the Wilis, Myrtha (Kathleen Breen Combes), leads the ensemble in dancing from midnight until dawn and forcing any men to die if they happen upon the Wili lair. Albrecht comes to Giselle’s grave and almost dies at the hands of the Wilis, only to be saved by Giselle’s spirit...
...Although Ponomarenko’s Giselle is the star of the ballet as a whole, both Rykine’s Prince Albrecht and Combes’ Myrtha manage to outdance her in Act II. Ponomarenko’s greatest accomplishment in this act is to take the recitatives of Adam’s score and convert them into recitatives of her own movement. It is beautiful to see how the changing intonations of the music are embodied in the dance...
...story, to take characters the audience can become invested in and put them in a difficult situation.” “Issues of public health are not sexy for newspapers, they are not appealing to readers, they are just incomprehensible statistics,” said Harro Albrecht, a journalist and global health fellow at the Nieman Foundation. “But through the media, an audience can be introduced to the real urgency of the challenges faced by global health.” In the end, audience reaction to the film and panel was extremely positive. Cynthia Cortez...