The Creation of Igiselle: Classical Ballet Meets Contemporary Video Games

by Vadim Bulitko

The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to design iGiselle, a video game prototype. Scholars in the fields of literature, physical education, music, design, and computer science collaborated to revise the tragic narrative of the nineteenth-century ballet Giselle, allowing players to empower the heroine for possible "feminine endings." The eight interrelated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772123811
• ISBN13: 9781772123814
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up