Newly promoted principal dancer Tirion Law and principal dancer Siphesihle November deepen their partnership in Giselle
Dancers can get showy with Albrecht’s sequences of jetés and beated jumps but, once again, November doesn’t take the bait.The title role of this 1841 ballet is a career-making or career-breaking challenge. Balletomanes of a certain era would refuse to see anything but a virtuoso in the part, worried that a lesser dancer could grind the drama into mush.
The first and second acts of the ballet are nothing alike, and neither are the two Giselles that inhabit them. Ballerinas tend to excel at one part over the other. The brightness and vigour demanded of the first Giselle don’t necessarily co-exist in a dancer capable of the ethereal lyricism of the second. Lunkina, for example, is an Act 2 shoo-in. Her natural weightlessness and grace make her beautifully suited to the gloomy heroine that emerges after intermission.
As Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis, principal dancer Koto Ishihara offers an interpretation that is both subtler and chillier than the imperious tyrant we normally see. And as the hapless Hilarion, Giselle’s scorned suitor, principal Spencer Hack manages to make heaps of pantomime look relatively non-ridiculous. That’s no faint praise.
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