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No Storybook Ending

Houston Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet loses something without Shakespeare’s words, Dracula without Bela Lugosi’s bite, Cinderella without the Grimm brothers’ morbid psychology. But Giselle is a story that was meant for ballet. Based on the legend of the Wilis — ghosts of young maidens who were jilted by men and…

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