La Sylphide Carla Fracci and Peter Schaufuss

LA SYLPHIDE, 1832, with Carla Fracci as Marie Taglioni and Peter Schaufuss as Joseph Mazilier. In 1987 a twopart television programme called The Ballerinas featured Carla Fracci, with some of the top male dancers of the period, in a series of reconstructions putting various ballets and their interpretors in an historical context. Fracci was an amazingly youthful 51 when she danced these extracts.