An AP Arts Review: ABT's 'Giselle' closes out New York's spring ballet season in classic style

She's a good two decades older than many of her fellow dancers, a mother and director of her own ballet company. But Nina Ananiashvili was so light on her feet, so delicate as American Ballet Theatre's fragile young Giselle that she could have been a teenager. Except, of course, for the maturity of her technique and control, honed over years of dancing the classics. The 45-year-old Ananiashvili will not retire from ABT until next year, but her performances of "Giselle" last weekend had the feel of a preretirement celebration, with affectionate New York audiences tossing bouquets at her feet. A week of "Giselle" at the Metropolitan Opera House marked the end of a varied and rewarding spring ballet season in New York, the only time each year when both ABT and New York City Ballet, across the Lincoln Center Plaza at the New York... [read full story]