Natalia Bessmertnova

Ballet in three acts based on the play by William Shakespeare.

A one-act ballet set to the music of Frederic Chopin, Les sylphides (a.k.a., Chopiniana) is an example of "ballet blanc" and features white clad sylphs dancing in the moonlight.

For five years, the St. Petersburg film company, MIRIS, searched in Russia's film archives and museums and unearthed fascinating footage, much of it never before available in the West, of many of the company's great dancers of the Bolshoi. With the help of NVC Arts and the newest technology this ballet documentary film was made. During the Bolshoi Ballet's first tours abroad in the mid-20th century, Western audiences were brought to their feet by...