Giselle
Alongside The Mousehole Cat the company chose to present
almost the oldest extant romantic ballet “Giselle”.
We were privileged to have two contrasting and moving couples
for the principal roles of Giselle and Albrecht. Amanda Armstrong
and Juanjo Arques were our guests from English National Ballet
and Orlando Russell and Kim Vieira came all the way from Holland on leave from
Dutch National Ballet . Laura Hussey, also from English National
Ballet, guested as Myrthe, the vengeful Queen of the Wilis,
alongside Duchy Ballet’s young star, Robyn Green.
Then young dancers of Duchy Ballet gave the principals their
enthusiastic support through the joys and the tragedy of Act
l. This was followed by the beauty of the ensemble work in
Act ll in which the Wilis were skilfully coached by Sianne
Strasberg.
This particular season is a hard act to follow.
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