See Giselle

BAM, June 8 to 11.

The wildly sad 1841 superballet about Giselle, a girl who dies brokenhearted and becomes a “wili” or vengeful spirit, gets a radical makeover with a percussive score by Vincenzo Lamagna, adapted from Adolphe Adam’s romantic original, and a modern factory setting by designer Tim Yip. Akram Khan’s massive, almost 50-dancer production for the English National Ballet is beloved for its ambition, emotional vividness, and fusion of classical ballet technique with kathak choreography.