La Sylphide
Subtitle: Paris 1832 and beyond
By: Edited by Marian Smith
Contributors: Guest, Ivor Forbes; Sowell, Debra H. (Debra Hickenlooper); Hammond, Sandra Noll; Ertz, Matilda; Aschengreen, Erik; Spencer, Helena Kopchick; Nørlyng, Ole, 1946-; Bennett, Alexander, 1929-2003; Di Tondo, Ornella; Ertz, Matilda Ann Butkas, 1979-
Publisher: DANCE BOOKS
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Alton, Hampshire]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9781852731564
Subjects: Ballet; History; Sylphide (Choreographic work); Sylphide (Choreographic work : Bournonville)
Other titles: Sylphide :
Notes: "Contributors are Ivor Guest, Debra H. Sowell, Sandra Noll Hammond, Matilda Ertz, Erik Aschengreen, Helena Kopchick Spencer, Ole Nørlyng, Alexander Bennett, Ornella Di Tondo and Marian Smith"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Marion Smith; title: Paris : The genesis of la sylphide / Ivor Guest ; Contextualising Madge's scarf: The Pas de Schall as romantic convention / Debra H. Sowell ; Dancing la sylphide in 1832: Something old or something new? / Sandra Noll Hammond ; Schneitzhoefffer's music for la sylphide / Matilda Ann Butkas Ertz; title: Copenhagen : Bournonville's la sylphide; title: a ballet about a dreamer and his longings / Erik Aschengreen ; Sylphiden and the Danish cultural canon / Helena Kopchick Spencer ; The body that sings / Ole Nørlying; title: Italy / Ornella di Tondo : The italian silfide and the contentious reception of ultramontane ballet ; Filippo Taglioni's sylphide and its antecedents ; The Italian silfide ; Variants in the plot ; The reception of la silfide in the press ; The music of the italian Silfide; title: On producing la sylphide: History, recollections / Alexander Bennett : Some settings, characters, machines ; Simplified choreographic script; title: In retrospect / Marion Smith : Levinson's syliphide and the danseur's bad reputation ; Les sylphides (plural); title: Appendices : Some productions of la sylphide ; The French liberetto of la sylphide (english translation) ; The Danish liberetto of la sylphide (english translation) ; Plot summary of la sylphide from le courrier des thêátres (1832) ; Regarding the Bartholomin score ; Comparison of three manuscript scores for la sylphide.