"林中仙子"(Les Sylphides)

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"林中仙子"(Les
Sylphides), 可說是Mikhail Fokine向“白色芭蕾”的鼻祖La Sylphide的致敬，亦是他作品中最受歡迎的一出。

在此作品中女舞者們都穿著浪漫時期的白色長裙，在蕭邦的音樂中漫舞。

這齣芭蕾並沒有故事。背景是灑滿銀白色月光的森林，幕啟時，三位女首席舞者擺出一個圍繞著男舞者(飾演詩人)的姿勢。首席舞者們和群舞者們隨著夜曲的音樂而舞。在夜曲完結後是輕快的降G大調華爾茲，這是其中一位女首席的獨舞。接著的是男詩人的獨舞；然後是另一位首席女舞者在輕快的D大調馬祖卡曲中獨舞；跟著便是最後一位女舞者獨舞的抒情序曲；這之後便是男詩人和女首席舞者（就是在幕啟的姿勢中躺在地上的那位）跳的像作夢般美麗的雙人舞；最後舞劇在Grand Valse Brilliante的群舞中完結，幕終時所有舞者都回到幕啟時的姿態，就像沒有移動過一般。

Les Sylphides part 1 of 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXj8FUT21bM&feature=player_embedded

Les Sylphides part 2 of 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xd6aKHSREuE

Les Sylphides part 3 of 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92WNm2azKdA&feature=player_embedded

Les Sylphides part 4 of 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ZcQrtURj8&feature=player_embedded

Oxford
Dictionary of Dance:

Les Sylphides

Sylphides, Les
(orig. Russ. title Chopiniana).Ballet in one act with choreography by
Fokine and music by Chopin. The original version was premiered 23 Feb. 1907 at
the Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg ,
with Pavlova, Fokina, and Oboukhoff. It was set to five piano pieces
orchestrated by Glazunov and unlike the final version was Polish rather than
Romantic in character. The opening Polonaise in A major (Op. 40, No. 1) was set
in a ballroom; the Nocturne in A flat (Op. 32, No. 2) represented Chopin,
dreaming feverishly in Majorca; the Mazurka in C sharp minor (Op. 50, No. 3)
depicted a Polish wedding; the Valse in C sharp minor (Op. 64, No. 2) was a pas
de deux in which the ballerina wore Romantic ballet dress; and the final
Tarantella in A flat major (Op. 43) represented a Neapolitan folk scene. A year
later Fokine revised the ballet, taking the Romantic pas de deux as his
inspiration. Some extra Chopin pieces (orch. Maurice Keller) were added to the
score and the ballet became a plotless work in which a poet dances with a group
of sylphides, the choreography recreating the soft lines and lilting ballon
of the Romantic style. This version was premiered 21 Mar. 1908 at Maryinsky
Theatre, St Petersburg ,
with Preobrajenska, Pavlova, Karsavina, and Nijinsky. The third version, which
is the one seen today, was created for Paris .
Diaghilev, initially against Fokine's wishes, retitled it Les Sylphides
and added new designs by Benois which placed the sylphides in the setting of a
ruined monastery. It was premiered 2 June 1909 by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at
Théâtre du Chatelet with Pavlova, Karsavina, Baldina, and Nijinsky. It opens
with the Polonaise in A major (although in Western performances this tends to
be replaced by the Prelude in A major (Op. 28, No. 7), and is followed by the
Nocturne in A flat major (Op. 33, No. 2) which is danced by three female
soloists, one male soloist, and the corps. After this comes the Valse in G flat
major (Op. 70, No. 1) danced by the first female soloist; the Mazurka in D
major (Op. 32, No. 2), usually danced by the ballerina; the Mazurka in C major
(Op. 67, No. 3), danced by the Poet; the repeated Prelude in A major (Op. 28,
No. 7) danced by the second female soloist; the Valse in C sharp minor (Op. 64,
No. 2), which is the pas de deux for the Poet and Ballerina in the original
version; and finally the Grande Valse in E flat major (Op. 18) for the whole
ensemble. For a later production Fokine choreographed the Mazurka in C major
(Op. 33, No. 3) as an alternative variation for the Poet, which is still danced
by the Kirov .
Fokine revived the work for many companies around the world including Ballet
Theatre (1940). The Royal Ballet's production goes back to Markova's staging
for the Vic-Wells Ballet (1932). Fokine wrote about its creation in Memoirs
of a Ballet Master ( Boston ,
1961).

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