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| | Sylvia - Paul Parish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Sylvia herself is not a woman you believe in, like Juliet, but one it's FUN to believe in, for the nonce. |
 | | Fauns, dryads, nymphs, shepherds, the quasi-Cyclopean hunter who abducts Sylvia and imprisons her in his cave in the second act—each breed has its own stance, tempo, undulation, (some of it brilliant, some of it grotesque—the drunken oafs in act 2 take two steps forward, one step back, which is proverbially how drunks move). |
 | | Thus Morris delays the moment when Aminta recognizes Sylvia for certain, and makes it a turning-point in the drama but not yet the climax of the dance, so all the piqué ballonnées, the sissonnes to pointe, the pas de bourrées of her variation are performed while two slave-girls hold a veil over Aminta's face. |
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