sylph

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

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2022

Ori and the Blind Forest sees a catlike, snow-white biped with wings who darts like a sylph across the screen on a journey to revivify an evanescent forest.

From Time ● Nov. 7, 2016

This all comes together in her first solo, just after the curtain rises, when the sylph shows us how light and supernatural she is, and how much in love, with a skimming, spinning dance.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2016

The sylph jumps with ronds de jambe sautés, quivering rapid circles of the foot in the air, with hummingbird speed; Ms. Woodward makes them gleam.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2016

“A monster, a maiden, a sylph of the ice. You kissed me, whispered stories in my ear. You sang to me and held me as I slept. Your laugh chased me into waking.”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2020

She’s a superstar in a comedy universe dominated by boys’ clubs and sylphs, and she’s funny as hell.

From The Guardian ● May 30, 2016

“Emeralds,” which is set to selections from Fauré’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” and “Shylock,” draws on balletic traditions of woodland glades and evasive sylphs, poets and sighing lovers, emphasized by Peter Harvey’s garden grove décor.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2011

Pieces such as Bleeding Fairies in 1977 deconstructed the ballet stereo-types of swans, nymphs, sylphs and earth mothers in a menstrual riot of radical feminism.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2011

The knockers— hardy mountain dwellers accustomed to the cold—carried those who would have otherwise frozen: some of the dryads, or the winged sylphs, whose bodies were limp in the wintry air.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo