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Lacotte - La Sylphide / Aurelie Dupont, Mathieu Ganio, Melanie Hurel, Jean-Marie Didiere, Ermanna Floria, Paris Opera Ballet
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I first saw this ballet on Great Performances: Dance in America on PBS about 20 years ago, performed by the Pennsylvania & Milwaukee Ballet & hosted by Peter Martens. He presented the ballet as originally performed by the Royal Danish Ballet with the original choreography & music. I taped it and watch it frequently, so I was delighted to be able to obtain a DVD version--or so I thought. This is NOT the same. For those who haven't seen the original, it must be thrilling. But I just prefer the music, the costumes, the staging, etc, as I saw it originally. The original music is wonderful. Effie & the other girls wore character shoes, not pointe shoes. The company danced a wonderful reel. Jeffrey Gibler (now a ballet master with the Pennsylvania Ballet) was a charming, somewhat naive, adorable Gurn. I got no feeling at all about the Gurn in the Paris version, but I couldn't help but love Gibler's Gurn. Melissa Podcasy & Marin Boireu, now ballet masters with the Carolina Ballet, were absolutely fantastic as the Sylph and James. Lisa Sundstrom was such a charming Effie that it was hard to believe that James could ever leave her, even for the Sylph. To me that was the definitive Sylphide. This one doesn't come close to its charm.
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