Les Sylphides

Les Sylphides — Plot

This ballet is choreographer Michel Fokine's new reading of his ballet created a few years before, Chopiniana, where he pays a tribute to the old days romantic ballets. The work does not follow a logical narrative progression, as Karsavina says in the introduction, it is a "Romantic reverie." The unique male dancer (John Field in this version) embodies a Poet. The corps de ballet and the three women soloists Alice Markova, Violetta Elvin and Svetlana Beriosova are intimately linked to the Russian Ballet and to Russia as a whole.

• Release date
• January 1, 2011
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• Genres
• Music

Les Sylphides — Cast

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Svetlana Beriosova Self (archive footage)

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Alicia Markova Self (archive footage) Violetta Elvin Self (archive footage)