The Alabama Ballet presents Giselle at the Samford University Wright Center February 18-20.  A portion of the proceeds go to LCBOCF.  Go to: http://www.alabamaballet.org/giselle2011.shtml.  When purchasing tickets type in LCB to make your contribution to the Laura Crandall Brown Ovarian Cancer Foundation.    

Passionate and beautiful, Giselle is a tale of jilted lovers, remorse, and forgiveness. The first act takes place in a small village during grape harvest. Duke Albrecht, disguised as the peasant boy Loys, has won the naïve and fragile heart of Giselle, the prettiest girl in the village. When Giselle learns of Albrecht's deception and the fact that he's already engaged, his betrayal breaks her weak heart and driven mad with grief, she dies. Act II, or the White Act, opens on a moonlit glade inhabited by Wilis, or the ghosts of women jilted before their wedding day. They exact revenge by forcing their seducers to dance themselves to death, but Giselle's love for Albrecht is undiminished, and she saves his life.

Giselle is the birth of a genre of classical ballet from which Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty originated. In short, it sets the bar for professional ballet companies, and the Alabama Ballet is proud to present it to Birmingham.