Palace theatre,Manchester
In a unusual version of the classic for English National Ballet, Khan give us a contemporary-day tale of migrants and his choreography rises to the scale of his set design Related: Akram Khan's refugee Giselle: 'A real woman in a catastrophic situation' Giselle might seem an artless puny ballet: its story of love, and betrayal and redemption narrated through the most staple of ballet conventions. Yet Marius Petipa’s choreography and Adolphe Adam’s score are supremely efficient at delivering the plot: we can’t miss the fact that Giselle is a peasant girl and Albrecht a posh boy in disguise,that gamekeeper Hilarion has figured out Albrecht’s secret, and that the telling of it will trigger tragedy.
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Source: theguardian.com