An enchanted groom impresses with style

part due to mime featuring largely in Bournonville’s choreography.

On the first night, Isaac Hernandez gave an outstanding display of Danish technique as the hero James, with powerful, light-as-air jumps and beautiful petit batterie. Jurgita Dronina was a mischievous Sylph, and Jane Haworth commanded the stage as Madge, a truly spiteful hag. The entire company shone in the large set-pieces, with a rousing display of Scottish dancing in the first act and, in the second, a bevy of beautiful sylphs moving as one.

La Sylphide Song of the Earth, ‘La Sylphide’ with ‘Song of the Earth’ is on until January 13 and then with ‘Le Jeune Homme et la Mort’