LA SYLPHIDE THE LIFE OF MARIE TAGLIONI
Written by Lorna Hill
Published by Evans Brothers Limited
in 1967
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- As a child, Marie was anything but beautiful. She had a plain pale face, very long arms and legs, which were considered a defect in those days, and a body so round-shouldered that she was nicknamed the 'little hunchback' by her classmates. Yet this little girl became one of the most superb dancers the world has ever seen. Her lightness and grace brought in an entirely new kind of dancing - the Romantic School. Had it not been for Marie Taglioni, there might well have been no Pavlova, Markova, Ulanova, or Fonteyn.