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A complete performance of La Sylphide with Eva Evdokimova, the one true Sylph. James is Peter Schaufuss, Madge is the notable character dancer Niels Bjørn La...
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2020Performed by National Ballet of ChinaSylphide: Yunting QIUJames: Ruichen SUN
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- Donita xie
Herman Severin LovenskioldChoreography: August Bournoville (Johan Kobborg)La SylphideAct IIPas de deuxThe Sylph.....
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- Tomaž Golub
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La Sylphide • 1h 7m. 4 comments. One of the jewels of Romantic ballet. On the morning of his wedding to his sweet fiancée Effy, James awakens from a dream to see a mysterious and tantalising Sylphide before him. His obsession with her sets off a fateful sequence of events where joy turns to sorrow, love to betrayal and infatuation to tragedy.
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 ...
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Act I. In a Scottish cottage, James awaits the dawning of the day of his wedding to Effie. A winged spirit, the Sylphide, gazes at him lovingly. Effie, her mother and the neighbors arrive to prepare for the wedding. An old witch, Madge, appears and reads their palms. The Sylphide reappears. James follows her into the forest, leaving Effie alone.
