Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Philippe Guilhon-Herbert - L'Esprit Des Ballets Russes

Cynthia Dragoni 🪬 on Instagram: "WHAT’S ONSTAGE: Les Sylphides, originally called Chopiniana (1907), was created by Mikhail Fokine for the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg as a “romantic reverie” set to Chopin’s music. In 1909, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes brought it to Paris, renaming it Les Sylphides and transforming it into a plotless, ethereal ballet blanc, emphasizing mood, musicality, and pure dance over narrative. The ballet bridged Romantic traditions with early modernist abstract