La Fille Mal Gardée
La Fille Mal Gardée is, at heart, a love story. The playful Lise and her beloved Colas are in love and want to marry. However, Lise’s widowed mother Simone, whose eyes are set firmly on the future, wants Lise to marry the wealthy Alain. Unsophisticated, simple and childlike in his manner, Alain is far too absorbed in his imaginary world and catching butterflies, to even think about getting married. In protest, the Widow Simone conspires with Alain’s father, Thomas, to arrange a marriage contract between the unsuspecting Lise and Alain. The Widow Simone must now do all she can to keep her plan alive and tear the young lovers, Lise and Colas, apart.
- Choreographed by Tatiana Pevneva and Yuri Vasilkov.
Interesting facts
- Translated into English ‘La Fille Mal Gardée’ is The Wayward Daughter, the literal translation to mean The Badly Guarded Girl.
- ‘La Fille Mal Gardée’ by Dauberval, is a comical ballet that was first staged in London in 1791 at the Pantheon Theatre.
- In 1885 Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov adapted Taglioni’s 1864 version of ‘Fille’, and it was renamed ‘Le Precaution Inutile’.
- In Petipa and Ivanov’s staging for the Imperial Ballet, it featured live chickens.
