Local Color: Painting Sets for a New Giselle
Go behind the scenes at PNB’s scenic shop to watch artists paint the sets for Peter Boal’s staging of Giselle, bringing the ballet’s world to life on stage.
A History of Giselle
“In Westphalia, the former Saxony, all is not dead which lies buried. When we wander there through the old oak groves we can hear the voices of the olden time, and the re-echoes of those deeply mysterious magic spells in which there gushes a [great] fullness of life …A mysterious awe thrilled my soul—when…wandering through […]
GISELLE…Ballet’s Great Tragedy
The History ~ Since its premiere in 1841, Giselle has become one of the most popular ballets of all time and is considered ballet’s great tragedy. Giselle represents the greatest achievement of ballet’s Romantic era. After it fell out of repertory at the Paris Opera, it returned to the West via Russia and had been handed down through generations of […]
Doug Fullington on Reconstructing Giselle
Peter Boal’s World Premiere staging of Giselle marks the first time an American ballet company has revived a classic based on original material researched by Stepanov notation expert Doug Fullington in collaboration with leading Giselle scholar Marian Smith. “Our work on Giselle continued in early January with a week of rehearsals in preparation for a demonstration in New York as part […]