The Creation of iGiselle

Nora Foster Stovel is Professor Emerita at the University of Alberta, where she specializes in literature in English and ballet. She has published on Jane Austen, D.H. Lawrence, Margaret Drabble, Carol Shields, and Margaret Laurence.

Preface
Revisioning Giselle as the Video Game iGiselle // Nora Foster Stovel

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Recreating Giselle for the Twenty-First Century // Nora Foster Stovel

I An Interdisciplinary Approach to Giselle

1 | The Creation of the Romantic Ballet Giselle
The Ballerina’s Hamlet // Nora Foster Stovel

2 | “No Feminine Endings”
Adolphe Adam’s Musical Score for Giselle // Christina Gier

3 | The Other Giselles
Moncrieff’s Giselle; or, The Phantom Night Dancers, Loder’s The Night
Dancers, and Puccini’s Le Villi // Mark Morris

4 | (Re)creating Giselle
Narrative and the Ballerina // Laura Sydora

II Creating iGiselle

5 | Artificial Intelligence for Managing the Interactive Ballet Video Game,
iGiselle // Sergio Poo Hernandez & Vadim Bulitko

6 | Re-playing iGiselle
Dance, Technology, and Interdisciplinary Creation // Emilie St. Hilaire

7 | Renewing Adolphe Adam’s Score
Creating the Music for iGiselle // Wayne DeFehr

8 | The Ballet Body and Video Games
A Feminist Perspective // Pirkko Markula

Contributors 189

Index 193