It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.

Giselle was reluctant but Alex succeeded in persuading her to come back in five minutes and the door was shut again.

Gautier was a celebrated abandonnée who yields or abandons himself to something of the Romantic Ballet, writing several scenarios, the most famous of which is Giselle, whose first interpreter, the ballerina Carlotta Grisi, was the great love of his life.

His expressive execution of a pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty ( Tchaikovsky ) was a tremendous success ; in 1910 he performed in Giselle, and Fokine's ballets Carnaval and Scheherazade ( based on the orchestral suite by Rimsky-Korsakov ).

It was from Petipa himself that Pavlova learned the title role in Paquita, Princess Aspicia in The Pharaoh's Daughter, Queen Nisia in Le Roi Candaule, and Giselle.

She was named danseuse in 1902, première danseuse in 1905, and finally prima ballerina in 1906 after a resounding performance in Giselle.

Blondet was born Alba Giselle Blondet, to Victor Manuel Blondet and Alba Gomez, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

However, it is notable that during much of that film, Giselle was more of an older sister figure than a maternal figure to that little girl.

Castillo also was the leading man of the telenovela Karina Montaner, opposite Giselle Blondet, broadcast by WAPA-TV Channel 4, also in San Juan.

It was not until the appointment of Alexander Gorsky as Ballet Master in 1900 that the company began to develop its own unique identity, with acclaimed productions of new or restaged ballets including, Don Quixote ( 1900 ), Coppélia ( 1901 ), Swan Lake ( 1901 ), La fille mal gardée ( 1903 ), Giselle ( 1911 ), Le Corsaire ( 1912 ) and La Bayadère ( 1917 ).

The ballet was first presented at the Paris Opéra's Salle Le Peletier on 28 June 1841 with Carlotta Grisi as Giselle, Lucien Petipa as Albrecht, and Jean Coralli as Hilarion.

On 12 March 1842, the ballet was first presented in England at Her Majesty's Theatre, London with Carlotta Grisi and Jules Perrot in the principal roles and Louise Fleury as Myrtha, and, on 30 December of the same year, the ballet was first presented in St. Petersburg at the Bolshoi Theatre with Elena Andreyanova as Giselle.

Petipa's final work on Giselle was notated in the Stepanov method of choreographic notation around the turn of the 20th century, and is today held as part of the famous Sergeyev Collection in the Harvard University Library Theatre Collection.

Giselle passed out of the repertory of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1867, and did not return to the western stage until Petipa's definitive version was performed by the Ballets Russes in 1910 at the Palais Garnier.

American Ballet Theatre's first Giselle was Annabelle Lyon, partnered by Anton Dolin January 12, 1940,

Dance critic John Martin, writing in the New York Times, called it " a date to write down in the history books, for it was as if the greatest Giselle of today were handing over a sacred trust to what is probably the greatest Albrecht of tomorrow.

He was best known for his lead roles in La Sylphide, Giselle, Frederick Ashton's Romeo and Juliet, and Swan Lake.

The band was earlier known as Stiff Miners, releasing two albums ( Giselle and Vox Celesta ) under that moniker.

After a change of government there, this passport was revoked in 1990, and he was given a German passport, the nationality of his wife, ballet dancer Giselle Roberge.

She danced numerous roles, including Les Sylphides, The Nutcracker, Gala Performance, and The Sleeping Beauty, but her most celebrated was the part of Giselle.

The first substantially complete stereo Giselle ( and the only one of its scope since Feyer's four-sided LP edition of 1958 for Angel ), this set is, I'm afraid, likely to provide more horrid fascination than enjoyment.

* June 28 – Ballet Giselle first presented by the Ballet du Théâtre de l ' Académie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris, France.

When the curtain rises on the first act, the cottage of Giselle and her mother Berthe are seen on one side, and opposite is seen the cottage of Duke Albrecht of Silesia, a nobleman who has disguised himself as a peasant named Loys, in order to sow a few wild oats before his marriage to Bathilde, the daughter of the Prince of Courland.

In the first act Giselle has to convey the innocence and love of a country girl, the heartbreak of being betrayed.

* The Earliest Russian Giselles-discusses the first interpretors of the role of Giselle in imperial Russia

| Lauren Cohen of Paramus, New Jersey, born on August 11, 1946, already mother of a 27-year-old daughter, Renee, of her first marriage, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, Giselle & Gregory, in New York, New York, on May 22, 2006, at the age of 59 years, 10 months, and 11 days.

It was after seeing the Camargo Society performance of Giselle with Olga Spessivtseva and Dolin in 1932 that Markova first realized the possibilities of the then-neglected ballet.

In the anime, Cubone first appeared on the Pokémon episode The School of Hard Knocks under the ownership of a pretty, yet snobby Pokémon Academy student named Giselle, who battled her Cubone against Ash's Pikachu.

In the 1930s, with the aid of the notations, Sergeyev went on to stage Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, his definitive version of Giselle, Coppélia ( as danced by the Imperial Ballet ), and The Nutcracker for the Vic-Wells Ballet of London ( later the Royal Ballet ) who still almost religiously perform many of these ballets with little changes from when they were first staged.

The first Giselle in Russia had been danced by Fanny Elssler, and so the initial reaction to Grisi's interpretation of the role was not enthusiastic.

Sergeyev brought these notations with him when he left Russia in 1917, and utilized them to mount such ballets as the Petipa / Ivanov Swan Lake, Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, the Imperial Ballet's original 1892 The Nutcracker, the Petipa / Ivanov / Cecchetti Coppélia, and Petipa's definitive Giselle for the first time outside of Russia, primarily for the Royal Ballet.

In October of that year, they released their first batch of Betamax and VHS tapes: The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Doctor Zhivago, Ben-Hur, That's Entertainment !, Network, Coma, The Dirty Dozen, An American in Paris, The Sunshine Boys, Blow-Up, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Night at the Opera, Adam's Rib, Jailhouse Rock, Tom and Jerry Cartoon Festival, The Boys in the Band, Rude Boy, Rio Lobo, The Street Fighter, Electric Light Orchestra In Concert, James Taylor In Concert, The Nutcracker, and Giselle.

This was the unscheduled first appearance of Rosella Hightower in the title role of Giselle ", calling it " a thoroughly admirable achievement, which brought an ovation from the audience ".

Giselle arrived at her husband's court accompanied by German knights.

Had the series been picked up by a network, the series would have focused upon Buffy ( voiced by Giselle Loren ) in more high-school adventures.

* Erotica's workplace Tenderloins features the wishy-washy owner Kevin ( voiced by Tom Kenny ), swishy bartender Leonard, and dancers Persephone who is promiscuous and switches accents, and naive and good-natured country girl Giselle.

Giselle ( French: Giselle ou les Wilis ) is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot.

Giselle and the harvesters dance but the merriment is brought to a halt by Hilarion who, having investigated the Duke's cottage now brandishes the nobleman's horn and sword.

Giselle is summoned from her grave and welcomed by the supernatural creatures who then quickly disappear.

* Some dance history of Giselle by Suzanne McCarthy for the Royal Ballet

Brewer, with the help of a journalist named Giselle, discovers that prot may simply be an alter ego ( the result of Multiple Personality Disorder ) of Robert Porter, whose life has been devastated by the murder of his wife and child and his subsequent killing of the perpetrator.

The INAH team led by Giselle Canto reported finding evidence of Olmec cultural influences at the site.

have also appeared in the Justice League Unlimited animated series, where she is voiced by Giselle Loren.

Her many roles include Masha in Winter Dreams and Princess Rose in The Prince of the Pagodas, both choreographed by MacMillan, as well as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Odette / Odile in Swan Lake, Nikiya and Gamzatti in La Bayadère, the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Manon in Manon, and Giselle in Giselle.

The studio is now headed by Giselle Stewart and Darren Yeomans.