Recréer Petipa : Giselle et Paquita

Reconstructing Petipa : Giselle and Paquita Marius Petipa is renowned both for his original choreographies and for his late-19th-century revivals in Russia of ballets created at the Paris Opéra earlier in the century, including Giselle (first created in 1841), Paquita (1846), Le Corsaire (1856), and Coppélia (1870). Doug Fullington and Marian Smith have collaborated on reconstructing two of these ballets : Giselle, staged for in 2011 for Pacific Northwest Ballet with Peter Boal, artistic director ; and Paquita, staged in 2014 for the Bayerisches Staatsballett with Alexei Ratmansky as stager and choreographer. In this presentation, they make comparisons of the ballets themselves as well as the two different reconstruction processes.