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 music design and computer science collaborated to modernize the 1841 ballet Giselle. Their goal was to revise the tragic narrative of the nineteenthcentury culture of death allowing players to empower the eponymous heroine for possible feminine endings. The eight interrelated cha