Ballet

Giselle

0 upcoming performances in New York

Premiered in Paris in 1841, *Giselle* helped define the Romantic ballet: a village love story that breaks into the supernatural, where memory and betrayal are judged by spirits of the night. Its two-act structure still shapes how classical ballet is staged and read in New York, where the work became a repertory touchstone through major companies and repeated revivals. At Danspace Project, it appears in dialogue with Tiran Willemse’s *Untitled (Nostalgia: Act 3)*, a contemporary response that folds ballet technique into other lineages, including Kuduro. The enduring idea is simple and unsparing: the body keeps the record.