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Pulsating and poetic: Akram Khan’s terrific Giselle returns to Sadler’s Wells

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“Poetry infuses Tamara Rojo’s every step, her every inflection as Giselle”
Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 20 September 2017
Giselle (Akram Khan)
Gavin Sutherland, Conductor
Tim Yip, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Tamara Rojo, Dancer
James Streeter, Dancer
Cesar Corrales, Dancer
Stina Quagebeur, Dancer
Begoña Cao, Dancer
English National Ballet Philharmonic
Akram Khan’s Giselle for ENB at the Coliseum: hauntingly mesmeric
*****
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****1
Thikra: Night of Remembering – past voices shaping our present
****1
Norwegian National Ballet's Dialogues II: brief but brilliant
***11
Gigenis: Akram Khan’s latest, affecting work
*****
ENB in Akram Khan’s Giselle: compelling, astonishing, unmissable
*****
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