The Karinska costumes are in the Bournonville style, and his folk touches are woven with formal complexity into the choreography by Balanchine.

The choreography's folk touches are abstract and enhanced by Santo Loquasto's elegantly stylized Russian shirts for the men in soft boots and the more generic dresses for the women.

The piquancy of the female role and the affected folk touches of the man's choreography were transformed by both dancers into a well-bred dialogue.

But her legs are straight, and the folk touch is not literal, but absorbed into a generally sweeping dance.

There are other versions of "Coppelia" that stress the folk touches, but Ballet Theater's production provides the variety of texture that Saint-Leon had in mind.

All are reflected in Mr. Wheeldon's generic folk touches.

The idiom is lucidly classical, even amid stylized folk touches and changing chain dances.

At the same time the choreography's folk touches, albeit more Polish than Russian, made a fanciful Slavic connection between two exemplars of Russian ballet training and Poland's most cherished composer.

Yet the present cast, including the ensemble, seems more modern in its approach toward the folk touches and romanticism that Mr. Tudor heard in the Dvorak music.

With their line broken by folk touches and bent-legged positions, they are robbed of the classical nobility that their partners still project through the choreography's contemporary sensibility.