A fairytale ballet checklist 🧚‍♂️: Fairies & witches ✅ Magic objects ✅ Forbidden love ✅ La Sylphide is a fairytale ballet for the whole family! Onstage now thru Sunday. ✨ For 🎟 → https://bit.ly/3Jnfj01 🎥: Dores André and Max Cauthorn in Bournonville's La Sylphide | San Francisco Ballet

3.2K views · 226 reactions | Bounding into the final 2 performances of La Sylphide ✨ When August Bournonville choreographed this ballet in 1836, he danced the role of James and thus included steps he was good at: jumps and quick footwork. More than 180 years later, Max Cauthorn takes on the same Bournonville role with style. For  → https://bit.ly/3Jnfj01 : Max Cauthorn in Bournonville's La Sylphide, with music played by SF Ballet Orchestra Musicians | San Francisco Ballet | Facebook

When the Sylph awakens James, it sparks in him the existential dilemma at the heart of La Sylphide—a stable, predictable path through life or an exploration of imagination and adventure?—that's as pertinent now (great resignation, anyone?) as it was when the ballet premiered in the 1830s. “Should I move to Hawai’i and open a farm and live off the Earth?” imagines Principal Dancer Ulrik Birkkjaer, who also coached the ballet. “Even if you’re in a good place with your marriage, your job, and your

31K views · 955 reactions | Revisit a monument of ballet history: La Sylphide with the The Australian Ballet, in a production directed by Erik Bruhn following the legendary original choreography of August Bournonville! You'll love the Pas de deux with Leanne Stojmenov (The Sylph) and Daniel Gaudiello (James)! https://bit.ly/4dmHJqu | medici.tv | Facebook

16K views · 330 reactions | Revisit a monument of ballet history: La Sylphide with The Australian Ballet, in a production directed by Erik Bruhn following the legendary original choreography of August Bournonville! You'll love the Pas de deux with Leanne Stojmenov (The Sylph) and Daniel Gaudiello (James)! https://bit.ly/4dmHJqu | medici.tv | Facebook