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Les Sylphides

Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. The ballet, described as a "romantic reverie", is frequently cited as the first ballet to be simply about mood... Wikipedia
Based on: Chopiniana
Characters: the poet, sylphs
Choreographer: Mikhail Fokine
Created for: Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, and Alexandra Baldina
Design: Alexandre Benois (set); Léon Bakst (costumes)
Original ballet company: Ballets Russes