La Sylphide - Carla Fracci & Paolo Bortoluzzi - 1976

This is an upload to commemorate the anniversary of Paolo Bortoluzzi's death 20 years ago today, 15 October 1993. He died the same year as Rudolf Nureyev, and it was for these two contemporaries that Béjart created his "Chant du compagnon errant". Both dancers were born in 1938, Nureyev on 17 March, Bortoluzzi on 17 May. Here, Bortoluzzi dances in La Sylphide with Carla Fracci during a gala in 1976.