Giselle ou le mensonge romantique

Maryse Delente met en scène les fantômes frénétiques du ballet Giselle et chorégraphie la danse en revenante. La lumière irréelle de Thierry Dubief accentue son effet d’évanescence en jouant sur des fumées poudrées.

Gisèle, written in 1841 by Théophile Gautier, is the first ballet grouping in a single character the two main elements of romantic ballet: the natural and the supernatural. This ballet is inspired by one of Victor Hugo’s Orientales and by the legend of the Wilis, by the German poet Heinrich Heine. 

God help the young man who finds himself in the Wilis’ path! They surround him with their frenzied desire and he must dance with them until he drops dead… Dressed in their bridal gowns, the Wilis dance like fairies in the moonlight… 

“From this legend I have kept only the frenzied desire and the immateriality” Maryse Delente points out. She has revisited this great ballet and developed a dance tinged with   expressionism, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic. A dance of flesh and blood where poetry and emotion converge.

Source: CCN Roubaix