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Shortly after the story begins, her beloved Albert's secret gets out--he is an imposter actually betrothed to another woman. But even then, as challenging townspeople gather and chaos temporarily ensues, Eddie Shellman's Albert is the star. Shellman intakes Albert an alternately flirtatious and compassionate man, and always a technically strong, exciting dancer with commanding presence...
...Southern bayou replaces a German graveyard. As two dozen Willis enter to initiate Giselle, Albert arrives at the haunting bayou. But before he is lured into his own dance of death, Albert is saved and Giselle's generosity releases her soul from the fate of becoming a Willi. Shellman is a powerful dancer to the last moment, his leaps and turns gaining strength as the momentum built. In all, Mitchell's "Creole Giselle" is provocative, and its connection to American history and culture gives it strength that could not be gleaned from the mystical 19th century German forest...
EMMETT F. SHORT Shellman...
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