The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) returned to the NCPA Opera House after a lapse of ten years, appearing at the NCPA Dance Festival 2023. The ABT excited the audience with their superb dancing skills, giving a gripping interpretation of the poignant love depicted in one of the greatest ballet Giselle.
Premiered in 1987, this version of ABT is produced by Kevin McKenzie, former Artistic Director of the ABT, based on the classic choreographies by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. It still retains exquisite and elegant details, with its stage scenery featuring the temper of the times. The storytelling and dramatic acting are more conspicuous in this version.
Giselle, played by Principal Dancer Skylar Brandt, danced lightly with her body rotating and jumping in a dance skirt, looking so artless, young and lovely.
With hard-to-master skills and tender, true feelings, Skylar Brandt vividly acted out Giselle’s grief at being deceived and her death with a broken heart, sounding so heart-wrenching.
Under the Wilis Queen Myrta, portrayed by the Principal Dancer Catherine Hurlin, the ghosts danced in unison in white, skirt fluttering, taking the audience to the harsh and cold world of wilies.
Giselle spares no effort to protect her lover, and Albrecht feels bitterly remorseful all his life. The two dancers acted out love and pain, betrayal and forgiveness with their fantastically tender bodies.
The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) returned to the NCPA Opera House after a lapse of ten years, appearing at the NCPA Dance Festival 2023. The ABT excited the audience with their superb dancing skills, giving a gripping interpretation of the poignant love depicted in one of the greatest ballet Giselle.
Premiered in 1987, this version of ABT is produced by Kevin McKenzie, former Artistic Director of the ABT, based on the classic choreographies by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. It still retains exquisite and elegant details, with its stage scenery featuring the temper of the times. The storytelling and dramatic acting are more conspicuous in this version.
Giselle, played by Principal Dancer Skylar Brandt, danced lightly with her body rotating and jumping in a dance skirt, looking so artless, young and lovely.
With hard-to-master skills and tender, true feelings, Skylar Brandt vividly acted out Giselle’s grief at being deceived and her death with a broken heart, sounding so heart-wrenching.
Under the Wilis Queen Myrta, portrayed by the Principal Dancer Catherine Hurlin, the ghosts danced in unison in white, skirt fluttering, taking the audience to the harsh and cold world of wilies.
Giselle spares no effort to protect her lover, and Albrecht feels bitterly remorseful all his life. The two dancers acted out love and pain, betrayal and forgiveness with their fantastically tender bodies.
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