Home Movies TV Series Search Sign in

La Sylphide

4.0 1 mins Documentary   1903
Peter Elfelt  
Director(s): Peter Elfelt

Solo from 'La sylphide' (1836), ballet by August Bournonville. Performed by Ellen Price (1878-1968), soloist from 1903. Ellen Price's dancing in Hans Beck's ballet 'The Little Mermaid' (1909) was the inspiration for Edvard Eriksen's statue of the same name (1911). (Stumfilm.DK)

Casts of La Sylphide

Ellen Price

as Ballet dancer

You might also like