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          August Bournonville, for example, required Lucile Grahn to mirror his steps almost completely in his Pas de Vestale from Gautier remarked on the..

          Lucile Grahn

          Danish ballerina

          Lucile Alexia Grahn-Young (30 June 1819 – 4 April 1907) was the first internationally renowned Danishballerina and one of the popular dancers of the Romantic ballet era.[1]

          Grahn studied from a young age at the Royal Danish Theatre School in Copenhagen, Denmark under the tutelage of August Bournonville.

          The rise of the Danish school of ballet is inextricably linked to August Bournonville Lucile Grahn (), the fabled Danish Sylphide, danced this role.

        1. IN PURSUIT OF THE August Bournonville and Jules Perrot.
        2. August Bournonville, for example, required Lucile Grahn to mirror his steps almost completely in his Pas de Vestale from Gautier remarked on the.
        3. The rival house, Her Majesty's Theatre, was presenting no fewer than four other stars of the Romantic ballet: Fanny Cerrito, Lucile Grahn, Arthur Saint-Léon and.
        4. Lucille Grahn and Marie.

          5. She officially debuted in 1834 at the theater and took on the leading role of Astrid in Bournonville's Valdemar in 1835. Soon the relationship between Bournonville and Grahn began to sour as she yearned to dance with the famed Paris Opera Ballet.

          Grahn reportedly changed some of the steps in Valdemar to show off her footwork, prompting Bournonville to make a formal complaint to the theatre directors.[2] In 1836, she created the title role in Bournonville's La Sylphide.[2] She eventually received royal permission to leave; after her departure in 1836, she never returned to Denmark.[3]

          In 1839, Grah