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This 3 page paper compares the Taglioni and Bournonville versions of the ballet “La Sylphide.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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at provides background information on "La Sylphide," noting that after the French Revolution (1789), there was little or no funding left for European ballet. Therefore, during the period 1800-1820
there were "no important ballets ... produced in France" (Ballet Academic Studio 2006). When "La Sylphide" opened, it marked "the beginning of a new era" in dance, and the rise
of a "new and innovative generation of defiant artists: the Romantics" (Ballet Academic Studio 2006). They were unhappy with the ugly reality of the times in which they lived, and
instead created dreamlike fantasy worlds as an escape (Ballet Academic Studio 2006). Romantic ballets, of which "La Sylphide" is the first, differed from earlier ballets because "they were inspired by
recent literature" rather than by classical mythology (Ballet Academic Studio 2006). The ballet was written in 1832 and the story on which it was based appeared in 1830; it was
the novel "Trilby" by Charles Nodier, who was a "renowned Romantic author" (Ballet Academic Studio 2006). The libretto was adapted from the novel by Adolphe Nourrit, and it was he
who suggested that "Filippo Taglioni should create a ballet based on the story" (Ballet Academic Studio 2006). This source describes "La Sylphide" as 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" (Ballet Academic Studio 2006). The ballet shows
the audience a "lyric supernatural world" that exists alongside the everyday world; the sylphs and other strange beings live in it, and occasionally come into our reality (Ballet Academic Studio
2006). When the protagonist loses the sylph, who represents his dream, "he is destined to die" (Ballet Academic Studio 2006). "La Sylphide" was a "revolution the history of ballet: for
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