La Fille mal gardée

…choreographed, the best known was La Fille mal gardée (1789), in which Mlle Théodore (Marie-Madeleine Crespé), Dauberval’s wife and one of Noverre’s favourite ballerinas, created the leading role of Lise. La Fille mal gardée was both one of the first comic ballets and one of the first to include realistic…

For example, in Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée (1960) ribbons represent the lovers’ emotions; tied into a love knot, they signify their passion, and transformed into a skipping rope and cat’s cradle, they show their innocence. But at the same time, the ribbons are used in a purely formal…