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11 unusual facts about Giselle


Alexandre Benois

His sets and costumes for the productions of Les Sylphides (1909), Giselle (1910), and Petrushka (1911), are counted among his greatest triumphs.

Alisa Sodoleva

She also played roles such as Monna and Zulma in Giselle and Maid of Honour in the Sleeping Beauty.

Carla Fracci

Her career highlights include Nijinsky, Giselle (American Ballet Theatre), Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances: Erik Bruhn 1961-1967.

Giselle

He also took inspiration from a prose passage in Heinrich Heine's De l'Allemagne describing supernatural young women called the Wilis.

They took their inspiration from a prose passage about the Wilis in De l'Allemagne by Heinrich Heine, and from a poem about a girl who dies after an all-night ball called "Fantômes" in Les Orientales by Victor Hugo.

International Ballet Festival of Havana

The 6th festival was dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Foundation of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba and to the 35th anniversary of Alicia Alonso’s debut in the role of Giselle.

Irina Kolesnikova

With this corps, she has toured internationally, playing the title role in Giselle, and Odette/Odile in Swan Lake.

Julia Moon

In December 1989, Julia Moon made her debut with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad in a performance of Giselle.

Life is to Whistle

Mariana, a ballerina, ponders breaking chastity vows she made to land the coveted role of Giselle; Julia has fainting spells each time she hears the word "sex," and Elpidio, a musician, seduces a gringa tourist while Bebe, the narrator, takes the viewer for a taxi ride along the streets of Havana.

Michele Jimenez

She danced main roles in many ballets like:Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Coppelia, Cinderella, Carmen, Don Giovanni, The Nutcracker and in many contemporary pieces from choreographers such as George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Hans van Manen, Krzysztof Pastor, Septime Webre, Wayne Eagling, Ted Brandsen, Alexei Ratmansky, Mark Morris and Christopher Wheeldon.

Roberto Bolle

Since then he has starred in many ballets including Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Notre-Dame de Paris, and In the middle somewhat elevated.


A Company of Swans

She joins the Company and they practice for a week in Century Theatre before leaving for Manaus, where they will perform Giselle, Swan Lake, La Fille Mal Gardee, and Casse Noisette (The Nutcracker).

Alina Cojocaru

Her performance as Giselle, alongside Johan Kobborg as Albrecht was recorded in 2006 and broadcast in England on Boxing Day.

Anna Antonicheva

The same year, she joined Bolshoi Theatre where she reprised roles in such plays as Hungarian bride in Swan Lake, Shireen in the Legend of Love, and Myrtha in Giselle.

Anna Podlesnaya

Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Clara and Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Pas de deux and Giselle (Giselle), Princess Florina and Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Phrygia (Spartacus), Seventh and Eleventh Waltzes (Les Sylphides).

Antoinette Sibley

She also danced the major roles of Odette and Odile in Swan Lake, the title role in Giselle and Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty.

Erina Takahashi

Cinderella, Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Giselle (Giselle), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Clara and Sugar Plum Fairy, (The Nutcracker), The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen), Princess Aurora, Princess Florine and the Bluebird (The Sleeping Beauty), The Chosen One (Rite of Spring), Manon (Manon).

Louisville Ballet

The Ballet also presents several full length ballets each year including Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Giselle and Don Quixote.

Ninel Kurgapkina

She graduated her ballet school and joined the Kirov Ballet in 1947, where she danced such roles as Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Myrtha (Giselle), Odette-Odile (Swan Lake), Kitri (Don Quixote) and Parasha (The Bronze Horseman).

Romantic ballet

Important Romantic ballerinas included, in addition to Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi, the first "Giselle", Lucille Grahn, Fanny Cerrito, and Fanny Elssler.

Sigebert IV

According to the pseudohistorical Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau and related documents, Sigebert IV, on the assassination of his father Dagobert II, was rescued by his sister and smuggled to the domain of his mother the (otherwise unknown) Visigoth princess, Giselle de Razès in Rennes-le-Château.

Simon Ball

His repertoire includes Prince in The Sleeping Beauty, the slave in Le Corsaire, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the prince in Cinderella, Albrecht in Giselle, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Basilio in Don Quixote, Siegfried in Swan Lake, Colas in La Fille mal gardée, Vershinin in Winter Dreams, and Ivan in The Firebird.

That's How You Know

As Giselle sings and dances through the park, she is joined by other people in the park including buskers, a steelband, elderly dancers, Bavarian dancers, and rollerbladers.