For Valentine's Day, Ballet Austin is presenting La Sylphide, an 1832 ballet about the tragic romance between James Ruben, a young Scotsman, and a Sylph or Wood Sprite. The Lady Barbara has high hopes that we will go.
If you scroll down the Ballet Austin website you will find a history of the ballet, a synopsis of the story, and a video performance by the Estonian National Opera which shows the kilt a-swirling and is very good; however, if you ever wondered what all the big deal was about Rudolf Nureyev go to about 4:50 in this performance with Carla Fracci:
you can see why the kilt can be such a pleasure to wear when you watch how good it looks on someone like Nureyev. He turns wearing the kilt into an art form- excellent
It may be an optical illusion, but the kilt looks a little short on Nureyev, maybe it's because the (white) hose don't look long enough...
But excellently danced nonetheless.
[B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="1"]Reverend Earl Trefor the Sublunary of Kesslington under Ox, Venerable Lord Trefor the Unhyphenated of Much Bottom, Sir Trefor the Corpulent of Leighton in the Bucket, Viscount Mcclef the Portable of Kirkby Overblow.
Cymru, Yr Alban, Iwerddon, Cernyw, Ynys Manau a Lydaw am byth! Yng Nghiltiau Ynghyd!
(Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Isle of Man and Brittany forever - united in the Kilts!)[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B]
Fantastic dancing and yes the kilt looks so good. I have seen this ballet many times but never the male lead kilted!
Sir, I bet you were thinking, like me when I heard the title, of LES Sylphides. Les Sylphides is a somewhat more famous ballet with music by Frédéric Chopin.
Here is Mikhail Baryshnikov and Marianna Tcherkassky dancing the Waltz from Les Sylphides:
La Sylphide...............with ..........Mathieu Ganio, Aurelie Dupont
The lead dancer is ...............Mathieu Ganio
Nueryev version although brilliant looks outdated a bit like " Brig a Doon ", compared to this
Yes, I agree that Mathieu Ganio of the Paris Opera Ballet is superb, but now I call your Mathieu Ganio and raise you a very young Herman Cornejo of the American Ballet Theater dancing with his sister! This kid is Air Jordan!
Originally Posted by McClef
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