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La Sylphide
Hypothetical Design Based on the classical Ballet La Slyphide
Set and Costume Design and Ideation
 LaSylphide Costume Designs |  LaSylphide_Page_11 |  Act 1 Scene 1On the eve of his engagement, In which James see's the illusion of the Sylph while being watched by shadow. |
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 Act 1 Scene 2The Engagement Part with Effie his Fiance and Gurn his best man. The two clans come together to celebrate. |  Act 2 Scene 1The Witch drops a scarf into the cauldron of black liquid, and curses it. |  Act 2 Scene 2Behind a scrim, the shadows are revealed dancing as the witch curses over the cauldron. |
 Act 2 Scene 3James has followed the Sylph to the Sylphide where he tries to catch his new Love. |  Act 2 Scene 4The witch hands the scarf to James promising him that the Sylph will become mortal at it's touch. He wraps the scarf around the Sylph and her wings, tattooed to her back, begin to leak black liquid. Suddenly, the lovers find themselves in a perspex box filling with black liquid as the Sylph falls at the hands of the curse. |  Act 2 Scene 4 cont. |
 Act 2 Scene 5The box empties and the Sylph has died. She is cleaned of the liquid and taken away by the remaining sylph. Behind the Scrim we see Effie and Gurn have been married. |  Final SceneJames calls out to the Clans but they do not recognize him, as he has become as the black shadows, a lost shape on the horizon. |
About the Show :
A Lover. A Sylph. A Witch. A re-imagined telling of one of ballets greatest tragedies.
Set in a neo-80's world on the Scottish Moors, James has a vision of an unearthly woman. Already engaged, he finds himself torn between what is real and what is illusion.
Haunted by a witch and dark shadows of sin, he follows the illusion, abandoning reality in a passionate longing for unattainable love.
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