Yet it's the profundity of her musical sense that creates the enchantment: at the key emotional points, Cojocaru seems to clear a moment of rapturous stillness, breathing a different air, before stepping back into the flow of the dancing and the music.
Riding a booster board-powered platform, Jesse Wellens and Jessica Rizer create plenty of enchantment.
She earned her status in contemporary theater by creating unique enchantments from exotic and frequently ancient sources, among them the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece, Ovid's Metamorphoses, The Arabian Nights and a pair of Chinese legends.
Though botanic gardens exist to harbor native and exotic plants in pleasing habitats, the grounds also offer opportunities for landscape designs that can create an atmosphere of enchantment.
The fact that these realms are represented in exaggerated, often comical pictures does not make them less disturbing, but it does create a sense of enchantment that turns bad feelings inside out.
The ethereal polyphony with which the Sixth begins was gracefully sculpted, and the medieval modal scale on which that symphony was based was used to create an atmosphere of enchantment; Sibelius's label for one of the stormy episodes was 'the pine tree spirit and the wind', and that was exactly how the music came across.
The performance does make a deep impression on the audience, however, thanks to the air of enchantment created by the actors and, most important, by John Ruocco, the director, whose considerable experience as a choreographer, especially in staging children's stories, is put to superb use in this strange, unsettling fantasy.
Enterprising developers took advantage of the enchantment with Art Deco to create alluring buildings with elegant touches like polychrome brick and terrazzo lobby floors.
It casts its spell with great subtlety: Humperdinck deploys Wagnerian methodology of considerable complexity to conjure up the sense of enchantment and threat that combine to create its impact.
Pop stars were starting to think their very existence was an object of fascination, that they didn't have to try to work to create glamour - in its original sense of a spell, an enchantment.
