Mats Ek

Tonight, another chance to see Swedish choreographer Mats Ek's production of Giselle. Though keeping the familiar Adolphe Adam music of the 19th-century ballet, Ek has discarded the usual setting in a romantic Rhineland village with dead spirits in a woodland glade. In his version, Giselle is confined to an asylum when she discovers that the stranger courting her is engaged to a woman from his own class. At the centre of the production is Anna Laguna 's award-winning performance as Giselle.