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Troy Game, La Sylphide

This fascinating ballet is a marriage of the brilliant martial art inspired ballet, Troy Game, and the moving classical-romantic ballet, La Sylphide.

Troy Game, choreographed by Robert North, was created in 1974 for the London Contemporary Dance Theatre. Influenced by the Ancient Greek war games, and martial arts such as the Japanese aikido and Brazilian capoeira, North created a piece that was admired internationally. The music consists of a street version of samba and avant-garde jazz, with an original piece by Bob Downes.

La Sylphide, one of the most-celebrated ballets of August Bournonville, composed by Herman Severin Lovenskiold, first premiered in 1836 and has been in the Royal Danish Ballet's repertoire ever since. It is a story of a man in Scotland, struggling with his emotions, being torn between two women: the real life woman, his fiancee, and his vision of an ideal woman, Sylphide. But his decision doesn't come without its price. La Sylphide choreographed by August Bournonville, is one of the oldest surviving ballets.