Ithaca Ballet is presenting two performances of Adolphe Adam's ground-breaking ballet, Giselle. We hear from Artistic Director Cindy Reid about this ghost story based on a legend about girls left at the altar whose spirits take revenge on men who wrong trusting girls. For years after its premiere it inspired an appetite for ghost stories.
A ghost story supplies the plot for a ground-breaking ballet
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Photo credit: Ithaca Ballet