Her ballet is based on George MacDonald's beautifully told 1872 tale about Irene, a steadfast princess who encounters the ghost of her loving great-great-grandmother (also named Irene) and, accompanied by her rustic friend Curdie, gets entangled with a population of fearsome goblins.
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