La Sylphide - Lis Jeppesen, Sorella Englund, Royal Danish Ballet
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Canada DVD Cover InformationBrand: KulturDVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 62 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-03-28 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Kultur Video Movie Reviews of La Sylphide - Lis Jeppesen, Sorella Englund, Royal Danish BalletMovie Review: A Wonderful Classical Ballet In The Danish Tradition!
The Royal Danish Ballet is one of the oldest continuously performing ballet companies in the world and the keeper of a very special ballet tradition all of their own. Students of ballet will notice many Danish-isms in their dancing(I won't go into detail here). This is a beautiful performance, very nicely captured on dvd. The sound and image are perfect. We have had the French version on dvd for a while(see my review of it) and you might wonder how the two versions compare. The French version is longer and the music and choreography are quite different. The two scores are composed by different people. The stories are essentially the same. In the Danish version Gurn, Effy, and Madge, the witch, play a slightly bigger role, making a more significant appearance in the second act. The Danes practically invented the use of ballet mime and we get a wonderful eyeful here. The mime is done so beautifully that it is dancing in itself. The Scottish women in the first act dance in character shoes, not on pointe, while in the French version all of the women are on pointe. In both versions the entire productions are fantastic!
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