I saw this very moving production, but this review is almost equally moving, capturing the ballet's complex emotional tenor of loss, longing, and hope through an exquisite technical vocabulary and a deep sense of Giselle's history as it relates to the present moment in time . I had not appreciated the nuances of Giselle's second-act dance to save Albrecht, or the ways that those nuances anticipate Ratmansky's radical, shattering postscript as both dancers--the mutilated soldier and the dead girl, reach from beyond death into life. I appreciate the refusal of sentimentality that RSM shares with Ratmansky. The dance says it all. So does the review.
I saw this very moving production, but this review is almost equally moving, capturing the ballet's complex emotional tenor of loss, longing, and hope through an exquisite technical vocabulary and a deep sense of Giselle's history as it relates to the present moment in time . I had not appreciated the nuances of Giselle's second-act dance to save Albrecht, or the ways that those nuances anticipate Ratmansky's radical, shattering postscript as both dancers--the mutilated soldier and the dead girl, reach from beyond death into life. I appreciate the refusal of sentimentality that RSM shares with Ratmansky. The dance says it all. So does the review.
Wow fantastic review! Sounds like a beautiful and tragic ballet that I would now like to see!Thanks for another great review Robert!