if there's one person who doesn't know how to handle a break-up it's giselle

boy does she go crazy!

throws her necklace off, rips her hair out then stabs herself with her lovers sword. YIKES! i think she should have bought some ice cream and talked it over with her girlfriends instead. but i guess that wouldn't have made for such a beautiful ballet.

last night's performance of giselle by the national ballet of canada was everything i ever dreamed it would be; haunting and heartbreaking and full of splendid, classical dance.

the forest spirits of scorned lovers past who dominate the second act were haunting and magical and showcased perfectly that amazing weightless illusion of ballet.

OH WONDERFUL. just wonderful. i clapped my little heart out. and danced all the parts i committed to memory the whole way home.