Description
Now, for the first time on DVD, the Dance Theater of Harlem is presented in Creole Giselle, their acclaimed interpretation of the ballet classic. Making only minor changes in the story, music and traditional choreography of the repertory staple, DTH founder Arthur Mitchell has set the ballet in 1841 Lousiana. It was a time when social status among free blacks was measured by how far removed one's family was from slavery; the community's aristocrats looked down on those whose immediate family had been enslaved. Thus, in the DTH version, Giselle faces the same social obstacles and heartbreaking rejection by Albert and his family as their classical counterparts. Giselle is danced by Virginia Johnson, hailed as strong and yet delicate.very moving.remarkable. Eddie J. Shellman co-stars, and was praised as an attractive and unusually crash Albert, his solos securely dispatched. See for yourself why Creole Giselle is one of the Dance Theater of Harlem's most popular works.
Director(s):
Thomas Grimm
Producers:
Yanna Kroyt Brandt
Actors:
Frederick Franklin,
Dance Ballet Theater of Harlem
Details for Adam - Creole Giselle / Virginia Johnson, Eddie Shellman, Dance Theater of Harlem DVD:
Studio: Kultur Video
Format: Classical / Color / DVD-Video / NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Audio: MUSIC: Dolby Digital Stereo
Disc: Single Side, Single Layer
Run Time: 88
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Production Year: 1987
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Number of Discs: 1
Packaging: Keep Case
UPC: 032031129191
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