Akram Khan's Giselle

Composer: Lamagna, Vincenzo

Ballet Company: English National Ballet

Choreographer: Khan, Akram

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Albrecht: Streeter, James

Bathilde: Cao, Begona

Giselle: Rojo, Tamara

Hilarion: Cirio, Jeffrey

Landlord: Reimair, Fabian

Myrtha / Queen of the Wilis: Quagebeur, Stina

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Orchestra: English National Ballet Philharmonic

Conductor: Sutherland, Gavin

Television Director: MacGibbon, Ross

Lighting Designer: Henderson, Mark

Set Designer: Yip, Tim

Costumer Designer: Yip, Tim

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Date of Production: 10-2017

Venue: Liverpool Empire

Playing Time: 01:37:08

Catalogue Number: OA1284D

UPC: 809478012849

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Acclaimed dancer-choreographer Akram Khan 'speaks tremendously of tremendous' (Financial Times) and this new Giselle, commissioned by English National Ballet, re-imagines the classic narrative ballet for the 21st century. Giselle has become a former garment factory migrant worker, Albrecht, a member of the wealthy factory-owing class. An abandoned 'ghost factory' haunted by the memory of female migrant workers, many of them victims of industrial accidents, replaces the traditional glade of Act II. There, Giselle's desire to break the cycle of violence will lead to her reconciliation with Albrecht and his release from the retributive justice of the Wilis.