La Sylphide (1903)

Release Date: 1903-10-31
Runtime: 0h 1min
Production Company: Peter Elfelt
Production Country: Denmark
Director: 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)