Les Danses polovtsiennes

Les Danses polovtsiennes is a ballet taken from the end of the second act of Alexandre Borodin ’s opera entitled Le Prince Igor . The ballet was performed as a separate entity for the first time by Serge Diaghilev ’s Ballets russes at the Châtelet Theatre in Paris on 19 May 1909. Its new choreography had been created by Mikhail Fokine at Diaghilev’s request. Diaghilev then staged the work at the Garnier Palace for the first time on 7 June 1910 with the same choreography by Fokine and with the…