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La Sylphide (English: The Sylph; Danish: Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet; the original choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832, and a second version choreographed by August Bournonville in 1836. Bournonville's is the only version known to have survived and is one of the world's oldest surviving ballets.

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La Sylphide

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La Sylphide (English: The Sylph; Danish: Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet; the original choreographed...

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Sylphide

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Look up sylphide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sylphide might refer to: La Sylphide, a ballet choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832 and by August...

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Filippo Taglioni

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better known, it was Taglioni who was the original choreographer of La Sylphide, in 1832. Born in Milan to father Carlo, he received his dance training...

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Sylph

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learned to sing, could perhaps have been a siren". The famous ballet La Sylphide ("The (Female) Sylph", Paris, 1832) is a prominent example of sylph lore...

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Natalia Osipova

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Tharp's In The Upper Room (2008) and La Sylphide (2009) Special Prize of The Golden Mask jury for Best Duet in La Sylphide (2009) UK National Dance Awards...

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Erik Bruhn

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and London's Royal Ballet. He was best known for his lead roles in La Sylphide, Giselle, Frederick Ashton's Romeo and Juliet, and Swan Lake. John Cranko...

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Giselle

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Gautier attended the first performance of La Sylphide. His ideas for Giselle would show touches of La Sylphide ten years later. It would be set in a real...

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Tiler Peck

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performed leading roles in Jewels, The Nutcracker, Raymonda Variations, La Sylphide, Romeo and Juliet, Coppélia, The Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake. Peck...

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Romantic ballet

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the 1827 début in Paris of the ballerina Marie Taglioni in the ballet La Sylphide, and to have reached its zenith with the premiere of the divertissement...

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Ballet and fashion

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romantic ballerina was provided by Marie Taglioni in the 1832 ballet La Sylphide. Her fitted décolleté bodice, diaphanous calf-length tulle skirt, and...

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Emma Livry

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with the Paris Opera Ballet at the Salle Le Peletier as the sylph in La Sylphide. Her talent brought her fame and she became a widely respected ballerina...

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Pointe shoe

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en pointe without the aid of wires. When Marie Taglioni first danced La Sylphide en pointe, her shoes were nothing more than modified satin slippers;...

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Ellen Price

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became a prima ballerina of Royal Danish Ballet. Her roles included La Sylphide, Cinderella, and Little Mermaid. The role of the Little Mermaid gave...

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Marie Taglioni

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as a danseuse at the Paris Opéra when her father created the ballet La Sylphide (1832) for her. Designed as a showcase for Taglioni's talent, it was the...

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Ballet blanc

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1832, Marie Taglioni appeared in the title role of La Sylphide, the story of a wood nymph (a sylphide) who tempts a Scottish farmer, James, to abandon his...

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History of ballet

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her image was light and pure (associated with her role as the sylph in La Sylphide). She was trained primarily by her father, Filipo Taglioni. In 1834,...

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Oksana Skorik

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toured with the Mariinsky Ballet to the United States, Japan, and Europe. La Sylphide (Sylph); choreography by August Bournonville, revised version by Elsa-Marianne...

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Daniil Simkin

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(McKenzie after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov) - Prince Siegfried; Benno La Sylphide (Bruhn, 1983 staging) August Bournonville - Gurn Sylvia, Frederick Ashton...

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Sarah Lamb

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promoted to principal in 2006. Lamb's repertory includes the roles of: Sylphide (La Sylphide), Marie Larisch (Mayerling), Tatiana and Olga (Onegin), Thaïs pas...

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Megan Fairchild

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Movement) Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Theme and Variations August Bournonville La Sylphide (The Sylph) Peter Martins The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Ruby, Princess...

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Les Sylphides

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Les Sylphides (French: [le silfid]) is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov...

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Silpheed

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player controls, and is most likely derived from the famous ballet, La Sylphide. Like many shooter games, the story involves using the Silpheed as Earth's...

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Matthew Bourne

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reminiscent of a Charles Dickens novel. His 1994 version of Filippo Taglioni's La Sylphide titled Highland Fling, was set in a modern-day Glaswegien housing project...

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Rudolf Nureyev

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– a slave Romeo and Juliet – Romeo, Mercutio La Sylphide – James Petrushka – Petrushka Le Spectre de la rose – The Spirit of the Rose Scheherazade – Golden...

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