Pacific Northwest Ballet's Giselle is a wonderfully Feminist, Goth, Revenge Fantasy! And One of my Favorites!
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Elle Macy as Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis, makes her first ghostly appearance in Peter Boal’s staging of Giselle . PNB presents Giselle February 3 – 12, 2023, as part of its 50th Anniversary season. (Streaming digitally February 16 - 20.) Photo © Angela Sterling. Lately, like a lot of us in the past few years, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about reality and, especially the realities of life and death—you know, the big things. The questions that we all ask; in sum, the questions that keep us awake at night, which haunt our dreaming and waking moments. Interestingly, a couple of days ago, in the middle of an average, run-of-the-mill conversation, my brother looked me, directly in my hazel orange/green eyes and asked, “Xavier—are you afraid of death?” I took a deep breath. Now, what would, under normal circumstances have been a difficult enough question to answer, has become an even bigger, more complex nexus of questio