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Sylphides, Les
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Moments from the ballet that stands forever at a turning point in history, looking backward into the Romantic era and forward into Modernism. (Note: brief caption below each picture; scroll down to see it.)
http://novia.net/~jlw/sylphides/sylph2.html
Bolshoi Ballet's Les Sylphides (Chopiniana) (1987)
http://www.eonline.net/Facts/Movies/0,60,2328,00.html
Synopsis of the original ballet
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Les Sylphides Sylphides is composed of a suite of dances in the romantic atmosphere of a moonlit park. The sylphides magical figures, like the sylph in La Sylphide dance with the poet in search of the ideal. The dances are in the...