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[Jane Simpson]

I see from the vai Classics site that their next ballet release is to be Ballet Rambert's production of Bournonville's La Sylphide, filmed by Margaret Dale for the BBC in 1961.

Lucette Aldous is the Sylph and Flemming Flindt is James; Madge is Gillian Martlew. I think the film was last seen in public at the National Film Theatre in London in 2005, as part of a Bournonville film season arranged by Jane Pritchard. As far as I remember, Aldous is charming and it's a fairly straightforward production, originally staged for the company by Elsa Marianne von Rosen. It's so long ago that the two solos in the first act are still danced by 'village boys', so that, except for the reel,  James doesn't dance till Act 2 and Gurn never gets a solo at all.

Also on the DVD is a Flower Festival at Genzano pas de deux danced by Nureyev and Merle Park - I don't think I've ever seen it.

[Helene]

That's great news, Jane:  I can't wait to see it.

[innopac]

Flower Festival in Genzano - Pas de deux: Rudolf Nureyev & Merle Park

https://www.youtube....h?v=HUq3cW-z35w



La Sylphide - Flemming Flindt & Lucette Aldous

https://www.youtube....h?v=xC9a1bwAu-o

[Hamorah]

I don't think that Nureyev's style suits Bournonville - it somehow looks wrong on him.  Flemming Flindt has a totally different quality to his dancing.

[innopac]

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