Le petit flûté 6 – Un Ballet Imaginaire

After the Revolution and the Terror, a legitimate frenzy of pleasure and gambling took hold of the French, especially Parisians. Wishing to forget the tragic pages of recent history, they asked for their dreams ... Romanticism was born on both sides of the Rhine.

Music and literature were the first vectors, but all forms of entertainment also contributed, especially dance.

Subjects, sets and costumes were in tune with the tastes of the day, turning us back to gothic fantasy, ghost stories, fairies, chivalric epics and princes charming...

Pascal Proust