Les Sylphides

This ballet is choreographer Michel Fokines new reading of his ballet created a few years before Chopiniana where he pays a tribute to the old days romantic ballets The work does not follow a logical narrative progression as Karsavina says in the introduction it is a Romantic reverie The unique male dancer John Field in this version embodies a Poet The corps de ballet and the three women soloists Alice Markova Violetta Elvin and Svetlana Beriosova are intimately linked to the Russian Ballet and to Russia as a whole