Giselle

Giselle

Explore the world of the dark Romantic ballet…

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Instructions

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Carlotta Grisi as Giselle

Giselle

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Portrait of Carlotta Grisi as Giselle

The Diva

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Nijinski in the rôle of Albrecht in the ballet Giselle

The Hunk

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Portrait of Adèle Dumilâtre

The Tall Girl

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La gravure du Fable "Le rat de ville et le rat des champs" par Gustave Doré

The Rats

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Tamar Draper and Makiko Aoyama

The Waltz

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Drinking Bacchus WGAREG001

The God

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Ménade danzante Casa del Naviglio Pompeya

The Maenads

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Red Riding Hood and the Woodsman

The Missing Person

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Théophile Gautier by Nadar

The Writer

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Sylphide Marie Taglioni 1832 2

The Rival

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The Object

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Henry Nelson O Neil Before Waterloo 1868

The Battle

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Leandre Madame Bovary frontispice 1

The Anti-Giselle

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Dada Masilo

The Choreographer

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Detail from a page of Justamant's score for Giselle

The Score

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Mark Fisher 1

The Philosopher

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Maya Deren in Meshes of an Afternoon

The Dancer Danced

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Baron Munchausen by Gustave Doré

The Interloper

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10 Orpheus and Eurydice MET DP811044

Orpheus and Eurydice

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Seated Girl in Peasant Costume

Silly Girl

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The Paris Opera in rue Le Peletier where Giselle was first performed

Paris, June 1841

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Her Majesty's Theatre aka The Italian Opera House in 1828

London, April 1842

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Herne Bay

Herne Bay, December 2019

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2 Grant Cieciura

London, February 2020

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KJ Crop

Gautier’s Dream

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Mignon Nevada as Ophelia in 1910

The Mad Scene

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Veiled Virgin by Giovani Strazza

The Costume

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The Supernatural

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Libretto Giselle from Les Beautés de l Opera

The Libretto

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The Knave of Staves from Visconti Tarot

The Page

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Adolphe Adam 1850 Charles Vogt Gallica

The Music