Akram Khan’s Giselle

Written By Sarah Halliday

Erina Takahashi as Giselle in Akram Khan's Giselle, copyright Camilla Greenwell

giselle, the ballet reinterpreted by Akram Khan 2016

danced by the English National Ballet at Sadler’s Wells October 2024

give me a baton and I will defend

my honour

myself

my destiny

give me a baton and I will teach you

what it is

to love and die

forgive and not forget

give me a baton and I will beat the earth

in sorrow

and in fury

until you listen

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Sarah Halliday

Website designer, photographer and videographer with many fingers in many pies based in Oxfordshire.

https://www.sarahhalliday.com
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