Mats Ek's Giselle

Mats Ek's radical reimagining relocates the Romantic ballet to a modern setting, where Giselle is a naive young woman in a rural community. Instead of dying of a broken heart after Albrecht's betrayal, she is institutionalized in a psychiatric ward. In the second act, the asylum inmates replace the Wilis, and Giselle's madness becomes the lens through which the ballet explores abandonment, mental illness, and the possibility of forgiveness.