2022 / AROP evening / Ballet

28 Jun.

Giselle

Palais Garnier

19h30

Duration

2h00

Dress Cocktail attire

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1st part

19h30

Intermission cocktail

20h20

2nd part

20h40

End of the performance

21h30

Giselle, the ultimate romantic ballet, marks the apogee of a new aesthetic. Diaphanous tutus, white gauze, tulle and tarlatan flood the stage. In a phantasmagorical transfiguration of a tragedy, the Wilis add to the illusion of immateriality. First performed at the Académie royale de Musique on June 28 1841, the ballet travelled to Russia and disappeared from the repertoire before being reintroduced back into France in 1910. Today, Patrice Bart and Eugène Polyakov’s version, faithful to Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot’s original choreography, continues to confirm the ballet’s early success. Luminous and terrestrial scenes vie with nocturnal and spectral visions in which dance becomes the language of the soul and the ballerina’s ethereal presence seems to defy gravity.

Giselle

Production de 1990 - Jean Coralli et Jules Perrot