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Chicago Dance Review: SYLVIA (The Joffrey Ballet) by Lawrence Bommer

FROM MYTHS TO MOVEMENTS A kind of Mulan among major works of 19th-century ballet (it celebrates a young nymph's coming of age), Leo Delibes' Sylvia is not as famous as his simpler, more domestic Coppelia. But the Palais Garnier's 1876 retelling of several Greek myths continues to deliver considerable charm. It holds it even in this 1997 reinterpretation for the […]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:13PM on October 15, 2015

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