Moving on pointe shoes, aspiring to ellipsis... to suspension points..., achieved through just one step, a dance step, as François Gremaud suggests in his exploration of Giselle, one of the best known and most widely performed classical ballets.

On stage, Samantha van Wissen, noted as a dancer in the company of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, does not just settle for being the heroine in the romantic tale of a young girl dying of a broken heart while her beloved is bewitched in a dance of revenge.

Above all, she focuses on the state of suspension verging on weightlessness as achieved sometimes for this ballet by dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov. Hence the title Giselle… with dots pointing the way, as a fine touch of irony, towards the ineffable joy felt through the work which Tchaikovsky acclaimed a poetic, musical and choreographic gem.