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This Galadriel is not the cosmically attuned sylph we know from the films.

Ballet upholds narrow ideals for everyone: for men, the archetype of the chivalrous prince; for women, the elusive swan or sylph.

His talk was to be about sylphs, and, needless to say, I didn’t want to go with you, but she insisted.

“It’s definitely weird,” said Josh Burnham, whose fluid, swooping performance as the poet surrounded by swirling sylphs en blanc ended without the thunderous applause that a good performance of “Les Sylphides” usually gets.

And with her voluminous arms and lush sense of suspense, Ms. Phelan floated across the stage in dreamlike walks that made her seem more sylph than woman.