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Jennifer Hackbarth and Parker Brasser-Vos in Milwaukee Ballet's 'Giselle' (2025)

Milwaukee Ballet opened its season this weekend with Adam Adolphe’s Giselle , choreographed and story-adapted by Michael Pink to be set in a war-torn ghetto in the 1940s.

I saw the closing performance, featuring Lahna Vanderbush as Giselle, Randy Crespo as Albrecht, Marko Micov as Hilarion, and Amanda Lewis as Giselle’s mother. In a ballet full of intricate plot points, these four artists in particular, alongside a formidable ensemble of dancers, drove the story home; their characters’ motivations and arcs were the clear, steady heartbeat under the orchestrations. In my interview with Pink a few weeks back, I accidentally referred to the dancers as “actors” in one moment,

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