The two-act ballet Giselle premiered in 1841. Today, this story of a peasant girl who falls in love with a nobleman in disguise is considered a classic. There’s a love triangle, a mad scene, and ...

Pirouette between true love and betrayal—cruelty and forgiveness—in the Philadelphia Ballet’s modern revival of "Giselle," debuting at the Academy of Music on February 29th and continuing through ...

Dating today is a lot different than it was when the classic ballet Giselle premiered in 1841 by what is now known as the Paris Opera Ballet. In @giselle, a new reimagining of the tale presented by ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Angel Corella is staging the timeless tale, Giselle, at the Academy of Music. "Giselle is one of the classical ballets of the repertoire," says Corella, Artistic Director of ...

Natalia Osipova as Giselle draws the kind of awestruck, reverent reaction from ballet lovers that still breathes from contemporary descriptions of Marie Taglioni or Vaslav Nijinsky. Osipova’s ...

Lady vampires never go out of style, but calling “Giselle” timeless would be a mistake. Few other ballets have been kept as stylistically pure from start to finish as the Romantic gem created for ...

One of the most beautiful and timeless ballets ever created graces the silver screen as an extraordinary new production of GISELLE—featuring principal dancer Olga Smirnova, who joined Dutch National ...

One of ballet’s oldest and most endearing works is being re-staged by the Pennsylvania Ballet this spring. The hauntingly romantic classic known as Giselle will run March 7-17 at the Academy of Music.

Mark Monahan never really stood a chance: in the Sixties, his mother danced for five years with what was then the Royal Ballet Touring Company; meanwhile, his father was the first and still ...