Le pas d'acier (Prokofiev)

"[2] Prokofiev wrote the score, based on a scenario by the Constructivist artist Georgi Yakulov and himself, in 1925–1926, much of it during his tour of the United States.

[7] The factory scene features machines and sprocketed wheels as the setting for a danced romance between a sailor and a young girl worker.

The critic André Levinson wrote:In this architectural decor agitates a poor drama, undecided between enthusiasm for Bolshevism and bitter irony.

Le pas d'acier was a major success for Prokofiev and Diaghilev in Paris, where it was performed for three consecutive seasons.

This production was described as "faithful to the original, never-performed concept of a celebration of Soviet workers' lives, instead of a mockery of them, which was the version seen by audiences of the early 20th century.