Les Sylphides

A poet wanders into a moonlit glade and finds himself among a company of sylphs, ethereal winged spirits of the Romantic imagination. Rather than telling a story through mime, the ballet unfolds as a plotless sequence of dances - solos, a pas de deux, and ensemble numbers - in which the poet drifts among the sylphs, briefly partnering their leader, before the vision dissolves back into stillness at the close. It is less a narrative than a sustained mood: a reverie on Romantic-era ballet itself, evoking works like La Sylphide without reproducing their plots.