Composer: Frederic Chopin
Choreographer: Michael Fokine
Premiere: June 2nd, 1909, Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
synopsis:
The ballet has no plot, that is why there is no scenario credit. It is "romantic reverie." Les 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.
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| Dreamy as somnolent ... the Royal Ballet's Les Sylphides. Photograph: Johan Persson |
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