Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc. Its original choreography was by Michel Fokine, with music by Frédéric Chopin orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Glazunov had already set some of the music in 1892 as a purely orchestral suite, under the title Chopiniana, Op. 46.[1] In that form it was introduced to the public in December 1893, conducted by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

The ballet, often described as a "romantic reverie",[2][3] was indeed the first ballet ever to be simply that.[2] Les Sylphides has no plot, but instead consists of many white-clad sylphs dancing in the moonlight with the poet or young man dressed in white tights and a black top.
Marianna Ryzhkina Bolshoi Ballet
Giuseppe Picone Free Lance former soloist with ABT
Olga Esina Wiener Staatsballet

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