My name is Annette Buvoli
I'm eighteen and I am the youngest member of the Company.
Giselle is actually my favourite ballet, has been ever since I saw it the first time.
I cried so much!
For me the main big chunk of Giselle in Act II, the twenty-four Wilis
Basically getting the structure together,
make sure they know exactly who they follow, who they're in line with
make sure they know the patterns and the details
I've probably done over a hundred shows of Giselle,
I've definitely done over a hundred shows of Giselle.
We are girls who've died of a broken heart. Some of the positions are almost like holding
children that were never born for marriages that never happened,
there's all sorts of beautiful little detail like that.
Practically they hate all men and
whoever comes into the forest, if he's a man usually he's condemned to death
by the Queen of the Wilis, Myrtha.
It is hard, there's quite a few jumps.
It's tiring, it is tiring, but as I say you feel worked and it,
you feel like you've done something at the end.
We are going to do twelve hops so you need to get to
in between the white.
Having the first rehearsal of anything is probably a lot harder than
any other day because your brain is working so much.
I think the hardest thing about Act II is the marriage of feeling
of all those women and they've got this intense heartache
and all the technical feats and the group work
so there's quite a lot going on for us.
My head feels really jumbled up, a lot to remember. It's pretty hard.
It's harder than I expected.
It's all coming together, it feels much better now that
we've done it and it's in our bodies and we know,
we really know the story and we're starting to get the feeling as well as the steps so, it's good.
I think the corps de ballet's very important. Like in every ballet
they really make the framework.
As a Wilis you've all got your own unique experience,
the sorrow and the heartache
but at the same time
you still have to get that unity and that's what makes it so powerful.
There is scope for interpretation and acting but within,
within being in the corps de ballet of course so we stand incredibly static
but we are sort of on watch because they are on the lookout for any man
you they will dance to his death.
It's getting the balance of being terrifying enough but incredibly feminine
and vulnerable and it's heartbreaking.
I am looking forward to it but
they are a bit of nerves. I love the choreography, I love the ballet
and I want to do it really well so you put pressure on yourself to
do your best.
I hope the audience is blown away
and feels the power and
the sadness and the heartbreak and the love and everything
that makes Giselle because Act II
ties everything and you sees Giselle's love for her Prince.
You see the heartbreak, you see the anger of the Wilis,
you just see all the emotions come together
and if everyone is together and everyone feels it
the audience should really get that and I hope they do.