CCMOnStage Dance Presents
April 14-17, 2022, Corbett Auditorium
Dance Department Supporter
The Corbett Endowment at CCM
*CCM student
Giselle will run approximately 90 minutes, plus a 15-minute intermission
One of the most romantic and beloved ballets about love’s triumph over treachery and death was originally produced at the Theatre de L’Academie Royale de Musique in Paris on June 28, 1841. The story was written by Theophile Gautier based on a theme by Heinrich Heine.
In a pastoral village, a naïve young girl, Giselle, lives with her watchful, protective mother, Berte. Prince Albrecht, Duke of Silesia, engaged to a noblewoman named Bathilde, is bored and lonely with his every day existence. Captivated by Giselle’s frail beauty and innocence, Albrecht disguises himself as a peasant named Loys and pledges his love to her. Hilarion, the village gamekeeper, also loves Giselle. He is filled with suspicion and jealousy and plots revenge when he observes Albrecht in royal garb. As the villagers celebrate the harvest by crowning Giselle as the festival queen; Berthe has a vision that her daughter will one day become a member of the Wilis. Hilarion exposes Albrecht’s disguise. Overwhelmed and distraught, Giselle goes mad and dies of aa broken heart.
It is midnight by Giselle’s grave in the woods where Hilarion is grieving Giselle’s death. He is frightened by the Wilis. These spirits of women jilted before their wedding day, rise from their graves at night and seek revenge upon men by dancing them to death. They immediately surround him and force him to dance until he drops dead of exhaustion. Albrecht arrives to beg forgiveness at Giselle’s gravesite. Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis, orders Giselle to entice Albrecht into a frenzied dance that would eventually kill him. However, Giselle defends him and in vain, begs Myrtha for mercy, but the queen refuses. Albrecht survives the dance of death only through Giselle’s love and forgiveness as she sustains him in dancing until the first light of dawn when the Wilis power is lost in the dawns light.
Special thanks to Rodney and Laurie Gasch, Amber Boyd, Will Brenner, Kyuran Ann Choe, Dr. Michael Donaworth, Rachel Gleason, Rose Smith, Heather Graden, Alan Husarchik, Dale Pickett, Diana Queen of Diana’s Dancewear, Jace Pauly of Cincinnati Ballet, Jennifer Thiemet of Anderson Young Ballet Theatre, Jane Hachiya-Weiner and Frank Weiner of Ballet Theatre of Carmel.
The Dance Department gratefully acknowledges the support of The Corbett Endowment at CCM.
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