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Arthaus presents Pierre Lacotte’s landmark reconstruction of La Sylphide. The original choreography by Philippe Taglioni changed the world of dance forever, cementing the features of Romantic ballet as we know it. These include dance en pointe and the tutu, which owe their omnipresence in ballet to the success of the 1832 staging of La Sylphide in Paris. Everything about the event combined to transform the ballet into a magical spectacle: the synopsis inspired by Romantic literature, the bucolic exoticism of the village wedding festivities, the dramatic realism of the Sylvan forest, the eerie halo of the gas lights, the aerial flights of the dancers, the long diaphanous tulle costumes, and the ballerina’s variations en pointes. Taglioni achieves a magical fusion between mime and artistic dance in a light and flowing style that gave birth to the first 'white' act in the history of ballet. Pierre Lacotte’s 1972 reconstruction returns to the very roots of Taglioni’s work. While writing a book on Romantic ballet in 1968, he discovered documents about La Sylphide which enabled him to present his historical reconstruction.
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