Le Pas d'Acier' (1925) re-staged: Prokofiev and ballet in the 1920s

Le Pas d'Acier 1925 presents Princeton University's source based recreation of Sergei Prokofiev and Georgi Yakoulov's 'Soviet' machine age ballet, originally produced by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1927. This resource: available for download or as a 2-DVD set includes the ballet in performance with synopsis in English and Russian, a documentary on its sources and re-discovery and additional short presentations on re-sourcing the choreography and on Prokofiev's ballets of the 1920s. The re-staging of Pas d'Acier has been noted and reviewed internationally. This project will be of interest to anyone involved in the history of the performing arts, reconstruction, modernism in music, movement and scenic design, early Soviet history and culture or in the work of Prokofiev or Yakoulov. It also contributes to research on the impact of Russian contructivism, film and ideas of interactivity in performance during the 1920s. The resource contains a source-based recreation of a 'lost' Prokofiev ballet from the mid 1920s. Based on the research of British dance historian Lesley-Anne Sayers, the ballet was staged by Princeton University's dept of music and the programme in Theatre and Dance during 2005. The contructivist resource also contains substantial documentary materials on the work at Princeton and on the sources of the research, with contributions from leading scholars in the field of music and dance.