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Creole Giselle (1987)
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Overview
Dance Theatre of Harlem founder Arthur Mitchell—the first African-American principal in a major American dance company—sets the classic ballet of “Giselle” in Louisiana circa 1841, a time when the social status of freed black Americans was determined by their family’s distance from slavery. The poor Giselle (Virginia Johnson) falls in love with the secretly upper-class Albert, but tragedy occurs when she learns they have no future.