DE LA Dance presents La Sylphide

DE LA Dance Company closes its 16th season with the Romantic ballet La Sylphide.

La Sylphide features choreography by August Bournonville and music by Herman Severin Løvenskiold.

On the morning of his wedding to his fiancée Effie, James awakens from a dream to see a mysterious and tantalizing Sylph before him. His obsession with her sets off a fateful sequence of events where joy turns to sorrow, love to betrayal, and infatuation to tragedy.

August Bournonville’s classic Romantic ballet is devotedly recreated by Co-Artistic Directors Meridith Benson and Mario de la Nuez. This captivating production is accompanied by an enchanting score by Herman Severin Løvenskiold. “La Sylphide demonstrates temptation, loss, and loving something you cannot have,” says DE LA Dance Company Co-Artistic Director, Mario de la Nuez.

“We wanted to present La Sylphide not only because it is extremely rare for a professional company to perform it in Cincinnati, but also because it is one of the most beautiful and romantic ballets of all time,” said Co-Artistic Director Meridith Benson. “Audiences have loved this ballet for two centuries. It is a spellbinding tale of betrayal, dark magic, and love set in the enchanting woods of Scotland. The work is full of woodland spirits, diabolical witches, and, of course, men in kilts.”