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    Les Sylphides (French: [le silfid]) is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov...
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  • 1832 and by August Bournonville in 1836 Les Sylphides, a ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1909 Sylphide, a cheese owned by Bel Group This disambiguation...
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  • opera, Iolanthe. La Sylphide is often confused with the 1909 ballet Les Sylphides, another ballet involving a mythical sylph. The latter was choreographed...
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    orchestrating music by Chopin to create new arrangements for the ballet Les Sylphides. Stravinsky worked on the opening Nocturne in A-flat major and the closing...
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    Fokine, including Le Pavillon d'Armide, the Polovtsian Dances (from Prince Igor), Les Sylphides, and Cléopâtre. The season also included Le Festin, a pastiche...
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  • dancing; nonetheless, several have been used in ballets, most notably Les Sylphides. Some are accessible by pianists of modest capability, others require...
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    Nijinsky in ballets including Chopiniana (1907), which was renamed Les Sylphides in 1909. In 1909, Sergei Diaghilev invited Fokine to become the resident...
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    Principal in 2012. He performed lead roles such as Conrad in Le Corsaire, the poet in Les Sylphides and the title role in Apollo, and originated the role of...
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  • Variations Princess Tea Flower in Whipped Cream Bach Partita Les Patineurs Piano Concerto #1 Les Sylphides Pierrette in Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade Clara,...
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    noted for their classical performances in works such as Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, Les Sylphides, La Bayadère, Swan Lake, and Raymonda, in which Nureyev...
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  • B C B A B. In an orchestrated version, it forms part of the ballet Les Sylphides. Hazel Gertrude Kinscella, 2005 Music and Romance P.186 Kessinger Publishing...
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    orchestral arrangement of this waltz for Sergei Diaghilev's 1909 ballet Les Sylphides. Other composers who orchestrated this waltz for that ballet are Alexander...
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    1959 Swimmer, to music by Shinji Eshima, 2015 La Sylphide, Jean Schneitzhoeffer, 1832 Les Sylphides, to music by Frédéric Chopin, 1909 Sylvia, Léo Delibes...
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    Kinski. In 1962, Nureyev made his screen debut in a film version of Les Sylphides. He decided against an acting career to branch into modern dance with...
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    repertoire (Giselle, Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, La Sylphide) as well as Onegin (Cranko); Notre Dame de Paris, Carmen, Proust, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (Petit);...
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    'Le Corsaire,' American Ballet Theater". The New York Times. Retrieved January 26, 2016. Zlokower, Roberta E. "American Ballet Theatre: Les Sylphides,...
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  • Richard Addinsell, made well-known orchestrations of works such as Les Sylphides (based on piano pieces by Chopin) and Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto, and...
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    An Evening with the Royal Ballet The Concert Dances at a Gathering In the Night A Month in the Country Other Dances Les Sylphides (Chopiniana)...
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    the pas de trois and the Polish Princess in Swan Lake The Mazurka - Les Sylphides Sylvia and Persephone - Sylvia Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux The lead - Theme...
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    her Giselle, as well as for The Dying Swan and Les Sylphides. During the Second World War she re-formed Les Ballets Russes in the United States and appeared...
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  • not to know." Les Biches was intended to be a modern "fête galante," and in some ways a commentary on Michel Fokine's ballet Les Sylphides. Nijinska took...
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    England in 1834. Sylphs again took to the stage in the 1909 ballet Les Sylphides. Willow, a character in Terry Brooks' Magic Kingdom of Landover series...
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    symphonies, particularly the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth, the Polonaise from Les Sylphides, and his two Concert Waltzes. His Violin Concerto, which was a favorite...
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  • 1941 at the age of 16. Her first performance with the company was in Les Sylphides in Mexico. During her eight years with Ballet Theatre, Fallis worked...
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  • Sylphide, vers. by Pierre Lacotte, with Mathieu Ganio. 2005: Sylvia, vers. by John Neumeier. 2010: Siddharta, by Angelin Preljocaj, with Nicolas Le Riche...
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    , routinely dancing the waltz solo in Les Sylphides. Her repertoire also included roles in Ballet Imperial, Le Beau Danube, Capriccio Espagnol, Gaîté...
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  • Sylphide, Lise in La Fille Mal Gardée, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Nikiya in The Kingdom of the Shades, the Mazurka and pas de deux in Les Sylphides,...
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    and Jan Brex (in Marseille). Videos of her dancing in Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, Les Sylphides, and The Sleeping Beauty are available. In addition, Asylmuratova...
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    conduct a training course for teachers. In 1986, she staged Fokine's Les Sylphides for The Australian Ballet. In 1992, she returned to Russia to help the...
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    Archived from the original on 24 July 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2018. "Les Sylphides". Royal Opera House Collections. London, England: Royal Opera House...
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