Giselle and the Power of the Arts. Perhaps Life is a Ghost Story and We Are Merely Spirits on a Stage.
Spoiler alert: She dies…at the end of Act I. Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers in Peter Boal’s acclaimed staging of Giselle . PNB presents Giselle onstage at Seattle Center’s McCaw Hall, April 10 – 19, 2026 . For tickets and information, contact the PNB Box Office, 206.441.2424 or PNB.org. Photo © Angela Sterling. It's not just everyday that you get to see a ballet that may be the reason that we have a specific turn of phrase added to our lexicon of idiomatic expressions--unless, of course, you watch Giselle everyday--but if you do that, then you are probably either trapped in your own hell or perhaps, stuck in some sort of balletic Twilight Zone . Maybe, even one where you are forced to watch the same dances over and over again, dancing along until you die of exhaustion, very much like the sickly, overwrought Giselle, and her selfish, unfaithful suitors--who, with the exception of one, are forced to dance themselves to death, though, Hilarion--Gise...
