Tag: Serge Prokofiev

• The clown, the factory and the idyll

  November 24, 2014

  Ballet, Dance, Orchestral

  Chout, Pas d’acier, Serge Prokofiev

  For our final session of the term we have some rather black Russian farce, a visit to a factory (it’s the Five Year Plan, you know) and a chance to hear Daphnis and Chloe in its entirety. Prokofiev’s two ballets for Diaghilev are very different: the first, Chout, tells a comic but very bloodthirsty tale…