Le Spectre de la Rose/NIJINSKY/Gautier Poem

Le Spectre de la Rose is a ballet of the Ballets Russes based on a choreographic poem by Théophile Gautier. The music, by Carl Maria von Weber, was taken from his short piece Invitation to the Dance. Choreography was by Michel Fokine and set and costume design by Léon Bakst. In this case, of course, with pictures of Tamara Karsavina and the great Nijinsky. The poem, as on the ballet, is about a Rose wich grows in front of a girl's room window. When she goes to her first bal as a debutant, the rose is cut by someone to be the girl's dress adornement. Back from the bal, the girl falls asleep and the spirit of the rose, in love with her, invites her to dance while she's sleeping...Then when she wakes up, she'll never know if it was a dream or not...