La Fête de Mars

La Fête de Mars is a pantomime divertissement with music by Rodolphe Kreutzer and choreography by Pierre-Gabriel Gardel . It was a personal success for the choreographer as a dancer, and the public applauded his performance in it, but his work had to be dropped after its third representation on 12 January 1810. Gardel’s composition had its world premiere at the Imperial Academy of Music on 26 December 1809 with Mmes Marie Gardel and Chevigny in the cast alongside Auguste Vestris and…