Les Sylphides

:Les Sylphides is often confused with La Sylphide, another ballet of similar name, also involving the mythical sylph, or forest sprite. In every other respect however, the two ballets are unrelated.

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La Sylphide - Sylph

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Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Frédéric Chopin. It premiered on in 1908 the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg as Rêverie Romantique: Ballet sur la musique de Chopin or Chopiniana. As Les Sylphides, the ballet was first shown on June 2, 1909 at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris(4), where La Sylphide had just been shown(4).

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Ballet - Choreographed - Michel Fokine - Frédéric Chopin - 1908 - Maryinsky Theatre - St. Petersburg - June 2 - 1909 - Théâtre du Châtelet - Paris - La Sylphide

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Les Sylphies was originally performed by the Ballets Russes, with principal dancers Tamara Karsavina, Vaslaw Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, and Alexandra Baldina. In 1940, American Ballet Theatre took up production, and opened it January 11 of that year at the Center Theatre in Rockefeller Center.

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Ballets Russes - Tamara Karsavina - Vaslaw Nijinsky - Anna Pavlova - Alexandra Baldina - 1940 - American Ballet Theatre - January 11 - Center Theatre - Rockefeller Center

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The ballet, often described as a "romantic reverie"(2,3), was indeed the first ballet ever to be simply that(2). Les Sylphides has no plot, but instead consists of many sylphs dancing in the moonlight with the poet or young man.

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