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	FOOTNOTES - La Sylphide
		La Sylphide debuted in 1832 as one of the first cries of a sizable and disgruntled youth movement - not too far removed from the dissatisfied young adults of the 1960s.
		La Sylphide was the first ballet to successfully express the Romantic philosophy:The hero on the brink of complacency, who suddenly throws it all away in a search for true happiness - a search that always proves fruitless, and the notion of a lyrical netherworld.
		La Sylphide's is the calling card of The Romantics, that bold and influential generation that forever changed the face of dance, with the creation of such bold and beautiful illusions.
	www.soundventure.com /web/footnotes/episode4.html (1608 words)

	La Sylphide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Sylphide is one of the world's best-known ballets.
		La Sylphide is often confused with Les Sylphides, another ballet of similar name, also involving the mythical sylph, or forest sprite.
		La Sylphide opens with a scene of a young Scotsman, James, asleep in a chair by his fireplace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Sylphide (602 words)

	The National Ballet of Canada \| La Sylphide Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		La Sylphide ushered in a golden age - an era of moonlight and ethereal sprites, and La Sylphide was to become the prototype of many other masterpieces which were to embellish this period of the Romantic ballet.
		La Sylphide was originally created during the great Romantic era of ballet and was premiered in France at the Paris Opera on March 12, 1832.
		La Sylphide is considered a masterwork and is today one of the few remaining ballets of the French Romantic theatre.
	www.national.ballet.ca /Performances/Seasons/2005fall/sylphideNote.php (2879 words)

	La Sylphide, the ballet - Dance It! - Ballet Academic Studio
		La Sylphide is the first ballet that expresses the Romantic philosophy fully: the hero, who is about to succumb to the status quo, forsakes everything to search for true happiness and avoid responsibilities.
		La Sylphide represents a revolution the history of ballet: for the first time the ballerina rises on the tips of her toes in the pursuit of unnatural beauty and lightness, perfectly adapted to the role.
		La Sylphide was represented at Covent Garden, London in July 1832, in Russia in 1837 and in Italy in the 1837 — 38 season.
	www.danceit.org /sylfing.html (1060 words)

	Variations on a Theme \| Romanticism from the canvas to the printing press to the opera house
		La Sylphide, based loosely on Charles Nodier's Trilby; ou, Le Lutin d'Argail (1822), illustrated the story of a supernatural female creature, half-human and half-bird, doomed to an eternity of dancing.
		He does this in the hopes that Sylphide's wings will disappear and she will be his forever; unfortunately, the scarf kills her and Sylphide falls into the arms of her friends, the Sylphs, as a grieved James stands aside to watch her die.
		However, the plot of La Sylphide was not the only novelty that inspired succeeding ballets; Marie Taglioni was the first to don a bell-shaped, calf-length, white tutu with a boned bodice that would be prevalent in Romantic ballet.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0126184/english/musicballet.htm (1441 words)

	La Sylphide at the Paris Opera Ballet
		La Sylphide, created in 1832 at the Paris Opéra, and danced by the legendary Marie Taglioni, born just 200 years ago, was the first of the truly Romantic ballets.
		James, a young Scottish farmer, whose thoughts are possessed by the beautiful Sylphide who comes to him in a vision, runs off with her to the forest on the eve of his wedding to Effie.
		In the Sylphide's aerial realm, inhabited by winged creatures, he asks the evil Madge for help to keep her for ever, but the witch gives him a poisoned shawl.
	www.culturekiosque.com /dance/reviews/sylphide.html (807 words)

	Boston Ballet : Birth of a Style:La Sylphide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The premiere of Filippo Taglioniâs La Sylphide in Paris on March 12, 1832, is one of the most significant events in ballet history.
		La Sylphide gave rise to the ballets blancs, or white ballets, in which the stage appears to be a sea of white tutus.
		La Sylphide also presented the forest as a mysterious, haunted setting, another idea that occurs often in classical dance.
	www.bostonballet.org /cm/pagedetail.aspx?cid=261&tuid=e6603784d886403abb31fb46caffe2d1 (1005 words)

	Boston Ballet : BOSTON BALLET OPENS SPRING SEASON WITH LA SYLPHIDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		La Sylphide tells a timeless and eternally romantic tale of idealized love, passion, revenge and deceit between a young Scotsman, his bride, a conniving witch, and an ethereal sylph.
		La Sylphide is one of the oldest existing works in all of ballet repertoire and is considered the cornerstone Romantic era ballet.
		Bournonvilleâs La Sylphide premiered in Copenhagen in 1836 with Lucile Grahn as the sylph and Bournonville himself as James.
	www.bostonballet.org /about/news/news.aspx?cid=221 (1021 words)

	Tulsa Ballet Golden Anniversary, 50 year anniversary, 1956-2006
		The reason "La Sylphide " isn't a ballet to mess with is because it is the wellspring from which comes all classical ballet.
		"La Sylphide " was the first ballet to use the technique as an integral part of the choreography -- to define a character, to tell a story.
		"'La Sylphide ' is where the whole concept of the classical, Romantic ballet began -- from the long white tutus, to stories of men pursuing untouchable women, to the supernatural elements of ghosts and spirits."
	www.tulsaballet.org /news/news/whole_pointe.htm (718 words)

	LEO -- Louisville Eccentric Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Filippo Taglioni’s “La Sylphide,” which debuted in 1832, was the first ballet to express this Romantic philosophy successfully.
		“‘La Sylphide,’ when it was created, was in its own way revolutionary,” says Bruce Simpson, artistic director of the Louisville Ballet, which will present “La Sylphide” Sept. 19 and 20 at the Kentucky Center.
		Performances of “La Sylphide” are Sept. 19 at 8 p.m., and Sept. 20 at 2 and 8 p.m.
	www.leoweekly.com /archives/091703/performingarts101.shtml (418 words)

	2005 Bournonville Festival - La Sylphide -Eva Kistrup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Luckily Nicolaj Hübbe in his production of "La Sylphide" shows that he is the one capable of assuring that the lineage is not broken and that theatricality and emotional depth still can be reached.
		Bournonville's "La Sylphide", the copy that survived the original French Romantic ballet about the young man who leaves his mortal fiancée to dance with his dreams in the forest, is to the Danish ballet scene what "Hamlet" is to Royal Shakespeare Company.
		She is stepping in for Silja Schandorff and as a replacement did ok. There's little in the ballet that uses Blangstrup's strong dramatic skills and, as he is not the greatest virtuoso dancer in the company, he struggled slightly with the difficult variation but somehow he always finds the adequate technique when he needs it.
	www.danceviewtimes.com /2005/Spring/09/bf3.htm (918 words)

	Flash 1
		However, I do know that "La Sylphide" has survived because the original book/story by Adolphe Nourrit is timeless, and Bournonville's version has withstood the test of time because the choreographic craftsmanship is solid.
		But 'La Sylphide' must interest the modern audience because of its story, what we know of its dancing, and because of the ballerina who danced it.
		She and the men who made 'La Sylphide' her most famous part created a revolution in the art of theatrical dancing that we are still witnessing every time we go to the ballet.
	www.danceinsider.com /f530_1.html (1306 words)

	Mercyhurst College - News & Events: College News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		La Sylphide tells the story of James, a Scottish peasant about to marry a peasant girl.
		But a Sylphide, an ethereal creature that flutters through the forest, falls in love with James on his wedding day, and after making herself visible to him, James falls in love with her.
		He flees his wedding with the Sylphide, but then realizes, as a mortal, that it is impossible to keep her.
	www.mercyhurst.edu /ne/college_news_detail.php?id=714&m=4&y=2005 (307 words)

	BALLET: NUREYEV DANCES 'LA SYLPHIDE' - New York Times
		But this ''La Sylphide,'' perhaps the most extensive contemporary attempt at reconstruction of the 1832 Paris original by Filippo Taglioni, is worth a trip.
		''La Sylphide,'' in effect, launched the era of 19th-century Romantic ballet as well as the career of the choreographer's daughter, the epitome of the Romantic ballerina - Marie Taglioni.
		It is an interpolation which Taglioni himself inserted into ''La Sylphide,'' taking it out of ''L'Ombre,'' a ballet he created in Russia in 1839.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04EFD61339F933A05755C0A967948260 (650 words)

	SSONET.com.au : Sydney Star Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Dancing boys in kilts are always a winner, but this early ballet was also the first time in history that the girls went up on their toes.
		The Australian Ballet’s La Sylphide tells the story of a Scottish gentleman lured away from his wedding day by an elusive creature of the air, and seduced into the forest by her fellow dancing sylphs.
		La Sylphide is preceded by short extracts from three other ballets, the most startling being the most recent, Grand Tarantella created in 1976.
	www.ssonet.com.au /display.asp?ArticleID=4216 (466 words)

	Ballet - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The 18th Century was a period of great advancement in the technical standards of ballet and the period when ballet became a serious dramatic art form on par with the Opera.
		Central to this advance was the seminal work of Jean-Georges Noverre, Lettres sur la danse et les ballets (1760), which focused on developing the ballet d'action, in which the movements of the dancers are designed to express character and assist in the narrative.
		A development of the Romantic ballet period, pointe work was developed by Marie Taglioni who danced the full length of the La Sylphide en pointe in 1832.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /ballet.htm (1120 words)

	The National Ballet of Canada \| 2005-2006 Production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		A powerful evocation of the Romantic preoccupation with the natural and the otherworldly, La Sylphide is a dance work of consummate formal beauty and irresistible emotional power.
		The distinctive and dazzling Bournonville choreography, with its emphasis on intricate footwork and ballon, reached new expressive heights in the story of the young Scotsman, James, who forsakes the certainties and happiness of the peasant world he knows to pursue the beautiful and mysterious Sylph.
		La Sylphide has been a beloved staple in the National Ballet repertoire since 1964.
	www.national.ballet.ca /Performances/showProduction.php?2005-2006/2005fall/sylphide-cage (303 words)

	DANCE: 'LA SYLPHIDE BY AMERICAN BALLET - New York Times
		''LA SYLPHIDE,'' one of the purest examples of 19th- century Romantic ballet, and ''Symphonie Concertante,'' a 1947 masterpiece by George Balanchine, each went on view for the first time this season with American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House on Saturday.
		The corps, and this is a corps ballet, was outstanding and the nuanced contrast between the ballerinas tantalizing.
		In ''La Sylphide,'' Miss Gregory proved she is now one of most convincing ballerinas in the title role; her rapport with Mr.
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	balance : library : ballet gallery : la sylphide
		"La Sylphide," subtitled the "Sylph of the Highlands," is about a Scotsman, James, who is about to be married by Effie.
		The sylphide returns during the wedding ceremony and snatches the ring just as James is about to put it on Effie's finger.
		James enters the forest and is confronted by the village sorceress, who gives him a magiv scarf, promising it will remove the sylphide's wings so that she will belong to James forever.
	www.freewebs.com /library1/lasylphide.html (496 words)

	Tobias: Tobi Tobias on dance et al.
		Fresh, natural, and spontaneous, by turns dulcet and capricious, her Sylphide is an innocent, as unaware as sun and rain of the consequences her behavior effects.
		The performances of the second-cast Sylphide and James were fine enough, but something of a letdown when seen in the shadow of the first cast.
		A former Sylphide and a former Madge, Simone played the small part now assigned to her with inexhaustible attention to detail, reacting fully and truly to everything happening around her and to her fellow creatures in the action.
	www.artsjournal.com /tobias/archives/2003/09/the_danes_at_ho.shtml (2670 words)

	RADACADABRA - La Sylphide
		La Sylphide is the story of a young Scottish farmer, James, who is visited by the Sylphide – a tree fairy – on the eve of his wedding to Effie.
		La Sylphide was originally brought to the stage by Filippo Taglioni in 1832 for his daughter Marie and was the world’s first Romantic ballet.
		Set and costume designer Anne Fraser won the 1985 Green Room Award for Ballet Design for La Sylphide and in 1993 she was awarded an AM for her contribution to design.
	www.radacadabra.org /sylphide.htm (350 words)

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		James is now torn between his love for the Sylphide and for Effie.
		In the forest, James and the sylphide dance with the scarf.
		The angry witch has poisioned the scarf, and the Sylphide's wings fall from her body.
	www.angelfire.com /la/dancer/la.sylphide.html (89 words)

	Ballet Stars of Moscow' Theatres Company
		Natalia Krapivina was born in Moscow in 1975.
		Graduated from the Ballet Academy in 1993, she was invited to dance with the Stanislavsky Theatre Ballet where she has performed Odette/Odile in «Swan Lake», Kitri in «Don Quixote», Masha in «Nutcracker», Cinderella in «Cinderella», The Sylphide in «La Sylphide», and other principal roles.
		Among all highlights parts of Odette/Odile in «Swan Lake», Giselle in «Giselle», Esmeralda in «La Esmeralda», Kitri in «Don Quixote».Particularly successful was her appearance in «The Spectre of the Ball».
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/7362/stars1.html (1305 words)

	Edinburgh Guide Dance review - Highland Fling - New Adventures Tour.
		His ballet La Sylphide, premiered in 1836, was in fact a reinterpretation of the original version created by Filippo Taglioni four years earlier.
		La Sylphide was like nothing seen in dance before, dividing critics, thrilling audiences across Europe and hailed as the voice of the new generation.
		The dancing is a clever balance between exquisite, graceful balletic sequences and playful, sexy fun as James pursues the elusive sprite of the air, the love of his life.
	www.edinburghguide.com /aande/theatre/dance/revd_05/highland_fling_newadventures.shtml (1015 words)

	LA SYLPHIDE
		La Sylphide, one of the most popular Romantic ballets, premiered at the Paris Opéra in 1832.
		The truth is that a sylphide (sylph) has fallen love in with him, enchanting him with her dance.
		Like La Sylphide, the ballet was first performed at the Paris Opéra, in 1846, the period when Romantic ballet was extremely popular in Europe.
	www.nntt.jac.go.jp /english/season/s195e/s195e.html (537 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - Lacotte - La Sylphide / Aurelie Dupont, Mathieu Ganio, Melanie Hurel, Jean-Marie Didiere, ...
		When La Sylphide first premiered on March 12, 1832, Marie Taglioni made ballet history by dancing in the first white tutu and dancing the whole performance en pointe.
		La Sylphide tells the story of a Scotsman who is married but falls for a mysterious aerial creature- La Sylphide.
		And the interview/making of/history of La Sylphide bonus was very educating.
	www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/B0009JVOLG.htm (576 words)

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