“La Sylphide,” the beloved 19th century ballet by Danish choreographer August Bournonville, is one of the signature works of Romantic ballet for its white clad sylphs - think fairies - dancing in the ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. Atlanta Ballet opens its 2023-24 season this weekend with “La Sylphide,” which the company last performed in 2019. While “La Sylphide,” choreographed by ...

Unlike musical scores or theatrical plays, ballets are rarely, if ever, written down. The lineage of the longest-lived classics can be traced through dancers who have shared their knowledge of pivotal ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Try summing up the themes of August Bournonville’s romantic 1836 ballet, ...

Danish choreographer August Bournonville’s reworking of the ballet in which James, a Scottish laird, pursues a woodland sprite, is arguably our most direct link to the romantic era. The camera does ...

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In La Sylphide, the human realm of a small Scottish community – evoked by traditional folk songs in Herman Løvenskiold’s score – meets the spiritual when James, a classic Romantic hero, is utterly ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Boston Ballet's 2017-2018 season concludes with La Sylphide, a program ...

Dreams coming to life, ghostly apparitions, the convergence of the real world with the supernatural. Ballet aficionados have seen it many times before – dancers on pointe, double tours, turns, petit ...

What a difference a hashtag makes. When Los Angeles Ballet presented August Bournonville’s two-act story ballet “La Sylphide” five years ago, the performance seemed an elegy to lost love and tragic ...

Sometimes, magical older women know best. But first, Los Angeles Ballet’s current bill offers an evening of unsurpassable beauty. It opens with George Balanchine’s 1934 “Serenade” set to Tchaikovsky’s ...