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

By Mark Pullinger, 21 September 2017
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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
Programme
Giselle (Akram Khan)
Performers
English National Ballet
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
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.