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	Les Sylphides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Les Sylphides is often confused with La Sylphide, another ballet of similar name, also involving the mythical sylph, or forest sprite.
		Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Frédéric Chopin.
		Les Sylphies was originally performed by the Ballets Russes, with principal dancers Tamara Karsavina, Vaslaw Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, and Alexandra Baldina.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Les_Sylphides (246 words)

	The National Ballet of Canada \| A Note on Les Sylphides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Les Sylphides is a poetic reverie brought to life by ballet technique that is evanescent and timeless.
		Even though Les Sylphides did not fit directly into the avant-garde mould of the company, it remains one of the purest, most classically based works of that era and the most famous.
		Les Sylphides was on the first program presented by the National Ballet at its debut performance on November 12, 1951 at Toronto’s Eaton Auditorium.
	www.national.ballet.ca /Performances/Seasons/2005winter/sylphideNote.php (951 words)

	LES SYLPHIDES - ABT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Les Sylphides, a one-act romantic reverie, is a plotless work in which a poet dances with ghostly sylphs in a forest.
		Les Sylphides, under the title Reverie Romantique: Ballet sur la musique de Chopin, was given its first performance at the Maryinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg on March 8, 1908, with Olga Preobrajenska, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky.
		Les Sylphides was given its United States premiere by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at the Century Theatre, New York on January 20, 1916, danced by Lydia Lopoukhova, Lubov Tchernicheva, Xenia Maclezova and Adolph Bolm.
	www.abt.org /education/archive/ballets/sylphides_les.html (336 words)

	balance : library : ballet gallery : les sylphides
		Fokine's masterpiece, "Les Sylphides" is generally reguarded as a typical romantic ballet.
		The 20th century namesake of "Les Sylphides," it restored the idea of ballet blanc, which had passed out of fashion.
		When the curtain rises for this ballet, the dancers are seen against the backdrop of a moonlit forest and a castle in ruins.
	www.freewebs.com /library1/lessylphides.html (500 words)

	Dutch National - Marc Haegeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It’s somewhat unfortunate that the Dutch National Ballet brought "Petrushka", "Les Sylphides" and "The Firebird" (in that order) under the less than appropriate title “Russian fairytales” instead of referring to Diaghilev or the Ballets Russes.
		"Les Sylphides" can hardly be called a fairytale and the ballet that fits best into that category, "The Firebird", is shown in yet another reworking by artistic director Ted Brandsen, who stripped the story of its traditional fairytale character by turning it into a no-brainer metaphor for the coming of spring.
		Yet while some members of the audience considered the costumes for "Petrushka" dusty and old, the opening of "Les Sylphides" was always greeted with applause.
	www.danceviewtimes.com /2005/Winter/02/dutch.htm (1154 words)

	Tobias: Tobi Tobias on dance et al. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ballets were choreographed—or, in the case of Les Sylphides, drastically revised—under the aegis of Serge Diaghilev and his legendary Ballets Russes and were danced by the likes of Nijinsky, Pavlova, and Karsavina.
		Attempts are made the world over, but ABT has a particular interest in doing justice to Fokine, Les Sylphides and Petrouchka having been staged for the company by the choreographer himself early in the 1940s, when ABT was merely Ballet Theatre—and newborn.
		The ideal Les Sylphides, the Sylphides of my dreams—I’ve seen ravishing fragments of it over the years, most often at ABT—would look utterly spontaneous, a vision that arose on the spur of the moment.
	www.artsjournal.com /tobias/archives/2005/07/inheritance_tac.shtml (2127 words)

	CriticalDance.com - Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo at Lincoln Center Review
		The longest piece, "Les Sylphides," came first and was the one that they packed with the most humor.
		There were the jumps that land too hard, gum chewing in the corps, movements that are too angular or too quick to be graceful, prima ballerinas who trip over corps members and who lose their placing on stage.
		Judging from the laughter throughout the crowd, the audience loved "Les Sylphides." Yet, I find that I like the Trocks best when they cut down the slapstick humor and play it straight…so to speak.
	www.criticaldance.com /reviews/2003/LesBalletsTrockadero20030815.html (558 words)

	DanceWorks SideSteps - Ballets Russes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sensing the desire in the West for exotic Russian themes, Russian choreographer Mikhail Fokine created the abstract ballet, Les Sylphides (1909); the fast-paced Russian fairy tale, The Firebird (1910); and the highly theatrical Petrushka (1911).
		Nijinsky's dances, such as his scandalous L'aprés-midi d'un faune in 1911 (right) and Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) in 1912 broke away from classical technique.
		Le sacre du printemps, which combined eroticism and a powerful score by Stravinsky, caused riots at its première in Paris in 1913.
	www.danceworksonline.co.uk /sidesteps/companies/balletrusses.htm (240 words)

	Australia Dancing - Sylphides, Les
		Australian audiences first saw Les Sylphides in 1913 when it was performed in Melbourne by dancers of the visiting Imperial Russian Ballet led by Alexander Volinine and Adeline Genee.
		Les Sylphides is also familiar to Australian audiences through its inclusion in the repertoire of Australian classical companies, as well as through numerous stagings by semi-professional and amateur organisations.
		Les Sylphides was next performed by the company in 1976, when it was staged by Dame Alicia Markova, whose reproduction was also included in the 1979 season.
	www.australiadancing.org /subjects/4461.html (568 words)

	American Ballet Theatre - Fall Repertory - Les Sylphides, Pillar of Fire, Sinfonietta
		Les Sylphides (1940): Choreography by Michel Fokine, Music by Frederic Chopin, Orchestrated by Roy Douglas, Staged by Kirk Peterson, Scenery by Alexandre Benois, Lighting by David K.H. Elliott, Conductor: David LaMarche, Performed by Gillian Murphy, Erica Cornejo, Maria Riccetto, Marcelo Gomes, Jennifer Alexander, Marian Butler, and the Company.
		Les Sylphides was presented in 1908 in St. Petersburg with the title Chopiniana.
		This tale of three sisters, one a spinster, one a lonely woman in love, and one a flirt, is set in 1900, when Schoenberg wrote the music used for this ballet score.
	www.exploredance.com /abt102104.php (894 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: The Trocks Return, With Parody and Large Toe Shoes
		Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo opens a seven-performance run at New York's Joyce Theater tonight.
		The company’s performances run through January 2 and include, in two programs, classic works from the repertory such as Dying Swan, Les Sylphides, Act 2 from Swan Lake, and an excerpt from Petipa’s Humpbacked Horse, along with modern works such as I wanted to dance with you at the Café of Experience.
		Les Ballets Trockadero's first performances were in 1974 in an off-off-off Broadway loft run by the West Side Discussion Group, and, despite the spoofing nature of the performance, New Yorker critic Arlene Croce wrote a thoughtful and appreciative critical response that eventually led to more mainstream success.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/1008.html (337 words)

	St Cloud Onlline
		Les Sylphides, Fokine's meld of dance, drama, and design structured around Chopin's instrumental work, was inspired by his appreciation of Isadora Duncan.
		He shared with her his dream of someday collaborating with a ballet company to perform Chopin's Les Sylphides.
		Janet Smith, who also danced Les Sylphides under Anna andahazy, will be assiting Karen.
	www.stcloud-online.com /events?date=3/14/2004 (660 words)

	Royalty Free Music by UniqueTracks
		Waltz in C Sharp Major, Movement 9 from Les Sylphides.
		Les Sylphides: Waltz in Eb Major (Grand Valse Brilliante)
		Grand Valse Brilliante in E Flat Major, Movement 10 from Les Sylphides.
	www.uniquetracks.com /songSearch.php?index=L (635 words)

	Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley - Slavonic & Hungarian Dances
		Les Sylphides has been described as "Romantic reverie." Les Sylphides is composed of a suite of dances in the romantic atmosphere of a moonlit park.
		The sylphides, (magical figures, like the sylph in La Sylphide), dance with the "poet" in search of the ideal.
		Les Sylphides 2 rendering by Henry Rayner (1902 – 1957)
	www.balletsanjose.com /Slavic.htm (202 words)

	Repertoire - Les Sylphides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Les Sylphides is a ballet in one act consisting of lyrical and romantic dances set to the music of Chopin.
		The original production at St Petersburg, entitled ‘Chopiniana’, was choreographed by Fokine end featured Pavlova among the dancers.
		When Diaghilar presented his first Russian scene in Paris he wished to use a title more evocative of the gentle style of the ballet so he chose ‘Les Sylphides’.
	www.balletrusse.com /repertoire/sylphides.shtml (68 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Not all shall have prizes
		He showed them off as eager individuals as well as a sparkling ensemble in a witty, grown-up ballet.
		The girls were demure in a very creditable account of Les Sylphides.
		Rebecca Wield danced the Prelude as though she were in touch with a spirit world; Valentine Olovyannikov partnered her in the pas de deux with gawky nobility.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,521852,00.html (620 words)

	American Ballet Theatre - Les Sylphides, Mozartiana, Amazed in Burning Dreams
		Les Sylphides (1940): (See October 21, 2004 Review).
		Julie Kent is flawless in her utilization of arms, hands, and facial expression as the lead Sylphide, emerging from the forest to woo Maxim Beloserkovsky.
		With dark green-fl sets in a deeply wooded ambiance, moonlit Sylphides dart to and fro in startling and classic fashion.
	www.exploredance.com /abt110504.php (663 words)

	Les Sylphides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		All dancers in Les Sylphides must ATTEND two ballet classes a week, plus a pointe session.
		In addition, it is expected that all dancers will be doing home practice to strengthen their pointe work.
		Note: Poor attendance in ballet class will require withdrawal from the ballet.
	www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca /~carousel/les_sylphides.htm (46 words)

	The National Ballet of Canada \| 2004-2005 Production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the first classical ballets to break from the tradition of narrative and attempt to create and indeed, inhabit, a more metaphysical poetic terrain, Les Sylphides is as captivating and startling today as it was when originally created by Michel Fokine in 1908.
		In its emphasis on mood over story, evocation over description, and impressionistic reverie over characterization, the work anticipates the modern era's more explicit concerns with abstraction and formal invention.
		"Les Sylphides…a thrilling, luminous performance, capturing the melodic cadences of Chopin’s poetic score.” ”
	www.national.ballet.ca /Performances/showProduction.php?2004-2005/2005winter/ronde-sylphides-opus (337 words)

	Amazon.com: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Complete Ballet); Glazunov: Les Sylphides: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This sounds like the way Alexander rahbari and Andrew Mogrelia, other members of the Naxos team, would conduct this ballet.
		The Glazunov Les Sylphides is good as well.
		The tempo on the Les Sylphides is kind of slow, but in an interesting way.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000013OT?v=glance (898 words)

	ABT - Mindy Aloff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kirk Peterson, the ABT ballet master who brought back “Les Sylphides” as the company had performed it when he was a principal dancer in the 1970’s, has emphasized the elements of pantomime as well as the structural detail, and the return of tenderness in the port de bras for the corps, especially, is very welcome.
		ABT’s dancers, who have extraordinary gifts yet who also tend to play to the audience, to (as one observer put it) comment on their own performances as they give them, are chastened in this ballet.
		Peterson currently on view is in his production of “Les Sylphides.”
	www.danceviewtimes.com /2004/autumn/09/abt1.htm (635 words)

	APHC: Saturday, April 19, 1997
		TR: We've decided not to cast you in Les Sylphides.
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	prairiehome.publicradio.org /programs/19970419/97_0419CHI.htm (1070 words)

	Welcome to AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: ABT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A romantic reverie springs from the sublime music of Chopin in this expressive flow of movement and mood.
		With Les Sylphides Fokine broke from the traditional story narrative to inhabit an entirely new poetic terrain, evoking an image of classical beauty in its most ethereal form.
		If Fokine had never choreographed another step, this ballet would have established him as a genius of dance.
	www.abt.org /performances/performance_display.asp?Event_ID=162 (95 words)

	Find in a Library: Les Sylphides Chopiniana : a choreographic suite to the music of Frederic Chopin
		Find in a Library: Les Sylphides Chopiniana : a choreographic suite to the music of Frederic Chopin
		Les Sylphides Chopiniana : a choreographic suite to the music of Frederic Chopin
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/f6e4e59af0ecd5bca19afeb4da09e526.html (81 words)

	Bolshoi Ballet - Les Sylphides (Chopiniana) (VHS) And Tim Wilson - Certified Aluminum... Recycled Hits Vol. 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bolshoi Ballet - Les Sylphides (Chopiniana) (VHS) And Tim Wilson - Certified Aluminum...
		This performance by the famed Bolshoi Ballet features the complete one-act work based on many of Chopin`s most famous melodies.
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	Famous Ballet Music ~ GaÃ®tÃ© Parisienne, The Sleeping Beauty, CoppÃ©lia, Les Sylphides / von Karajan, Berlin PO ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Adagio (Helene et les jeune Troyennes - Cleopatre et les jeunes Nubiennes)
		A lot of the credit for that goes to the man in charge of this set, Herbert von Karajan.
		The great conductor leads the Berlin Philharmonic through glowing highlights and suites from Offenbach's "Gaite Parisienne," Gounod's "Faust," Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" and Delibes' "Coppelia," and the complete Chopin's "Les Sylphides" and "Dance of the Hours" from Ponchielli's "La Gioconda." Of course, the...
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	BMG Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Love For Three Oranges: Suite, Op.33bis: Scine Infernale: Le Magicien Tchilio Et Fata Margana Jouent, 3:39 (excerpt)
		Love For Three Oranges: Suite, Op.33bis: Le Rince Et La Princesse: Andantino, 3:41 (excerpt)
		Les Sylphides: Valse, Op.18 "Grande Valse Brillante", 4:23 (excerpt)
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	Famous Ballet Music ~ Gaîté Parisienne, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppélia, Les Sylphides / von Karajan, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Music / Famous Ballet Music ~ Gaîté Parisienne, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppélia, Les Sylphides / von Karajan, Berlin PO Famous Ballet Music ~ Gaîté Parisienne, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppélia, Les Sylphides / von Karajan, Berlin PO - Customer Reviews, Information, Ratings, and Prices
		The great conductor leads the Berlin Philharmonic through glowing highlights and suites from Offenbach's "Gaite Parisienne," Gounod's "Faust," Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" and Delibes' "Coppelia," and the complete Chopin's "Les Sylphides" and "Dance of the Hours" from Ponchielli's "La Gioconda." Of course, the pieces...
		Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Complete Ballet); Glazunov: Les Sylphides
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