Le Dieu bleu is a ballet in one act choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Reynaldo Hahn, set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau and Federico de Madrazo y Ochoa.

He hoped that Le Dieu bleu (another exotic ballet) would be equally successful.

Michel Fokine choreographed all of them, while Léon Bakst designed the sets and costumes for the first four.

When Fokine and Bakst started work on Ida Rubinstein's ballet, Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, Diaghilev felt betrayed.

Fokine also studied the arts of India, but in the end his dances for Dieu were uninspired and dull.

[1] Prince Lieven, a critic and historian of the Ballets Russes, said the music had no interest or importance but only that it was "sweet and insipid.

"[3] Bakst based his ideas for the sets and costumes on the posters and printed materials for the Cambodian Ballet's 1906 productions in France.

He was forced to use it because Hahn had rich friends in Paris, who would have cut their support of the Ballets Russes if the music had been rejected.

The Young Girl tries to escape, but monsters rise from a place beneath a trap door.

[1] Valery Svetlov wrote in the Mercure de France on 15 May 1912 that Dieu was "a failure in every sense of the word.