CCMOnStage Dance Presents

GISELLE

 

April 14-17, 2022, Corbett Auditorium

Dance Department Supporter 
The Corbett Endowment at CCM

  • Directors Dierdre Carberry and Shauna Steele
  • Guest Artists Jace Pauly, Cincinnati Ballet; and Antonio White
  • Choreography Jean Coralli (1854), Jules Perrot (1892), Marius Petipa (1910 revival)
  • Composer Adolphe Adam (1856)
  • Lighting Designer Sharon Huizinga
  • Associate Lighting Designers Natalia Carlson*, Kate Ingram*
  • Costume Designers Kristina Sneshkoff, Shauna Steele
  • Sound Designer Ryan Hurt*
  • Production Stage Manager Morgan Piper*
  • Technical Director Grace Mayo*
  • Scenery Anderson Young Ballet Theatre, Ballet Theatre of Carmel, Gatsch

*CCM student

Giselle will run approximately 90 minutes, plus a 15-minute intermission

Synopsis/Scene Breakdown

One of the most romantic and beloved ballets about love’s triumph over treachery and death was originally produced at the Theatre de L’Academie Royale de Musique in Paris on June 28, 1841. The story was written by Theophile Gautier based on a theme by Heinrich Heine.

Act I

In a pastoral village, a naïve young girl, Giselle, lives with her watchful, protective mother, Berte. Prince Albrecht, Duke of Silesia, engaged to a noblewoman named Bathilde, is bored and lonely with his every day existence. Captivated by Giselle’s frail beauty and innocence, Albrecht disguises himself as a peasant named Loys and pledges his love to her. Hilarion, the village gamekeeper, also loves Giselle. He is filled with suspicion and jealousy and plots revenge when he observes Albrecht in royal garb. As the villagers celebrate the harvest by crowning Giselle as the festival queen; Berthe has a vision that her daughter will one day become a member of the Wilis. Hilarion exposes Albrecht’s disguise. Overwhelmed and distraught, Giselle goes mad and dies of aa broken heart.

Act II

It is midnight by Giselle’s grave in the woods where Hilarion is grieving Giselle’s death. He is frightened by the Wilis. These spirits of women jilted before their wedding day, rise from their graves at night and seek revenge upon men by dancing them to death. They immediately surround him and force him to dance until he drops dead of exhaustion. Albrecht arrives to beg forgiveness at Giselle’s gravesite. Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis, orders Giselle to entice Albrecht into a frenzied dance that would eventually kill him. However, Giselle defends him and in vain, begs Myrtha for mercy, but the queen refuses. Albrecht survives the dance of death only through Giselle’s love and forgiveness as she sustains him in dancing until the first light of dawn when the Wilis power is lost in the dawns light.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Rodney and Laurie Gasch, Amber Boyd, Will Brenner, Kyuran Ann Choe, Dr. Michael Donaworth, Rachel Gleason, Rose Smith, Heather Graden, Alan Husarchik, Dale Pickett, Diana Queen of Diana’s Dancewear, Jace Pauly of Cincinnati Ballet, Jennifer Thiemet of Anderson Young Ballet Theatre, Jane Hachiya-Weiner and Frank Weiner of Ballet Theatre of Carmel.  

The Dance Department gratefully acknowledges the support of The Corbett Endowment at CCM.

The Company

  • Giselle | Anna Lee Rohovec^, Maia Blake~
  • Berthe, Mother | Jennifer Listerman
  • Albrecht, Duke of Silesia | Jace Pauly, guest artist from Cincinnati Ballet
  • Wilfred, Albrecht’s Squire | Jeremy Thomas^, Katie Kinman~
  • Hilarion, Game Keeper | Garrett Steagall^, Antonio White~
  • Duke, Prince of Courtland | Katie Kinman^, Jeremy Thomas~
  • Bathilda, Albrecht’s Fiance | Rose Engel^, Lily Kozub~
  • Peasant Pas – First Boy | Garrett Steagall~
  • Peasant Pas – First Girls | Ying Ying Cecily Tong^, Eva Moore~
  • Peasant Pas – Second Boy | Antonio White^
  • Peasant Pas – Second Girls | Gemma Smith^, Sofia Stitz~
  • Giselle’s Friends | Emerson Lecrone, Lily Kozub^, Rose Engel~, Emma Phillips, Sydney D’Orso, Gabby Savka (Thurs), Emilia Mieczykowski (Fri), Alyssa Pankey (Sat), Maddie Talbot (Sun), Hannah Adamczak, Mandi Weitz
  • Villagers | Carmen Doll, Keenan Pennington, Morgan Montour, Iliana Rich, Rae Dougherty, Gracie Zamiska, Sarah Bartlett, Rebecca Docea, Hazel Alexander, Grace Mitchell, Cynthia Lutz, Elise Arcuri, Meg Green, Sophia Gray
  • Royal Party | Erin Decker, Taryn Grassbaugh, Laykin Stoess, Katie Griffith, Mira Sidhu
  • Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis | Maddie Talbot (Thur), Alyssa Pankey (Fri), Emilia Mieczykowski (Sat), Gabby Savka (Sun)
  • Moyna | Lauren Sokol^, Claire Zakrajzek~
  • Zulma | Bethany Roup^, Meg Green~
  • Wilis | Grace Mitchell, Hazel Alexander, Erin Decker, Sydney D’Orso, Rae Dougherty, Sarah Bartlett, Gracie Zamiska, Carmen Doll, Keenan Pennington, Mira Sidhu, Morgan Montour, Lily Kozub, Miranda Sharer, Rose Engel, Sophia Gray, Rebekah Docea^, Cynthia Lutz~, Iliana Rich^, Chloe King~, Katie Griffith^, Taryn Grassbaugh~

^ Thursday/Saturday performances
~Friday/Sunday performances

Production Staff

  • Assistant Stage Managers | Quinn Morgan, Katie Reus
  • Assistant Production Managers | Leah Berry, Emma King
  • Assistant Sound Designer | Brenden Friedel
  • Costume Assistants | Jonnie Lynn Jacobs Percer, Emerson Lecrone
  • Head Electrician | Tal Kochav
  • Assistant Head Electrician | Claire Michels
  • Lighting Programmer | Dionte Mercado
  • Light Board Operator | Corbin Hopkins
  • Followspot Operators | Indy Caramelli, Rachel Ledington, Logan Vanderpool
  • Deck Electrician | Corbin Hopkins
  • Electrics Crew | Indy Caramelli, Rachel Ledington, Logan Vanderpool, Corbin Hopkins
  • Lighting Graduate Assistants | Baron Leon, Alex Mason, Kristen Peck, Alaina Pizzoferrato
  • Assistant Technical Director | Grace Mayo
  • Staff Scenic Artist | Karolyn Hasselfeld
  • Scene Shop Assistants | Mckenna Brennan, Maya Eberhardt, Aaron Graham, Nick Hunley, Thomas Iodice, Grace Mayo, Stephanie O’Rear, Janay Sukkarieh, Logan Vanderpool
  • Set/Props Running Crew | Hannah Kate Hawver, Annalee Crosser, Izzy Dillon, Liz Mitten
  • Production Sound Engineer | Dani Silver
  • Sound Board Operator | Macay Smith
  • Sound Load in/Out | Ryan Hurt, Brenden Friedel, Macay Smith, Dani Silver, Patrick Kiernan, Aaron Harris-Woodstein, Alex Brock
  • Sound Shop Graduate Assistants | Alex Brock, Ryan Hurt, Patrick Kiernan, Aaron Woodstein
  • Stage Management Office Assistant | Jie Min

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Judith Schonbach Landgren and Peter Landgren
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Elizabeth C.B. Sittenfeld
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman
Mrs. Theodore W. Striker
Mrs. Harry M. Hoffheimer
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Willard and Jean Mulford Charitable Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation
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