On January 11, 1940, the company originally known as Ballet Theatre began the first performance of its first season with a 1909 classic: Les Sylphides. One coup was that the one-act ballet to ...
Chopiniana, his 1907 “white” ballet (known in the West as Les Sylphides) (pictured right, photo V Baranovsky), can be inert, shapeless, lifeless. Indeed, it all too frequently is. Saddled with an ...