The Kennedy Center’s Festival of China promises rare glimpses of art from half a world away. But Tuesday at the Eisenhower Theater, it was a familiar Western work that offered the biggest surprise, as the National Ballet of China performed a tender and finely detailed excerpt from the French romantic ballet “Giselle.”
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The Kennedy Center’s Festival of China promises rare glimpses of art from half a world away. But Tuesday at the Eisenhower Theater, it was a familiar Western work that offered the biggest surprise, as the National Ballet of China performed a tender and finely detailed excerpt from the French romantic ballet “Giselle.”
