My first choice was a ballet piece called La Sylphide. La Sylphide is the story of a young Scotsman named James who is soon to be married. He falls asleep and has an intricate dream about a beautiful sylph, who is a spirit. In his dream they dance and he soon falls in love with the Sylph. When he wakes up, he quickly forgets about the Sylph and focuses on his fiancée. Soon a witch who reads palms arrives in the castle and tells James that he was going to cheat on his fiancée on their wedding day. He doesn't listen and the marriage continues. When he is about to put the ring on her finger, the Sylph appears and snatches the ring from him. Soon she runs away into the forest and James chases her, leaving his fiancée at the altar. The witch appears to him again, but this time to offer him a magical scarf. She tells him that the scarf will capture her and she will be his forever. James takes the scarf and wraps it around the sylph, which kills it. James is soon left alone, with no one and all alone. His fiancée ended up marrying his best friend. The original choreographer of this piece was called Philippe Taglioni, an Italian dancer. The Sylphide was performed by his daughter Marie Taglioni, who was also a very important dancer in the Romantic era, at the Paris Oera in Paris in 1832. She played the Sylphide in her father's piece and wore a costume with real flowers. on her dress which was different from that of the other dancers. He also danced for August Bournonville, who was part of the Royal Danish Ballet Company. August soon took command of the piece in Copenhagen in 1836. August created more than 50 ballets for the Royal Danish Ballet. She wanted more of a French and English romantic side to the piece,......in the center of the paper...piece, there was only her and there was no male presence on stage. Costumes differ from showing a culture to representing how someone felt about the times happening around them. Martha also choreographed her own performance and La Sylphide had two choreographers. In Lamentation, Martha showed a more relaxed body flow and only used a bench for support. In La Sylphide, there were many different settings such as a forest, a living room and a church scene. In a way both pieces were based on sadness. In La Sylphide, James is left alone and heartbroken. In Graham's piece, it represents pain and sadness. James lost his fiancée and the Sylph. Graham lost his son and danced with all his heart for him. Both pieces contain a message that people who are passionate about pain dances should delve into. Personally I prefer happier pieces, but these two caught my attention before anything else.