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“Here, they were in rehearsal for ‘La Sylphide,’ because Nureyev was passionate about the Bournonville choreography.

When the Compañía Nacional de Danza took the stage at the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada in southern Spain on Wednesday, it was in many ways like any other dance performance: A couple performed a touching Bournonville pas de deux; an ensemble of 21 dancers wearing loose, pale gray costumes premiered a new work, set to music by Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, a 19th-century Spanish musical prodigy.

I soak myself in the work of the most inspiring choreographers and companies, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, the gifted young Justin Peck, Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, the Royal Danes dancing Bournonville and, of course, the sublime Fred Astaire.

What’s preserved, in any case, is the really good stuff, the dancing in Bournonville style.

“Napoli” is a three-act ballet from 1842 by the great Danish choreographer August Bournonville.