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La Sylphide
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Music
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Herman Lovenskjold |
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Choreography
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Sorella Englund after August Bournonville
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Costumes
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Peter Cazalet
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Lighting
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Karim Badwan
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ScenicDesigner
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Peter Cazalet
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La Sylphide, the first great Romantic ballet, was originally choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832. Bournonville saw the production in Paris, and in 1836 choreographed his own version for the Royal Danish Ballet, basing it on the same story but commissioning a new score by Herman Løvenskjold. This wistful fable takes place on the wedding day of a young man named James, who becomes enraptured by the vision of a bewitching sylph. He abandons his fiancée Effie at the altar to pursue the elusive creature. The ballet’s themes of escape and fantasy remain as resonant today as they were 170 years ago.
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