Scherzo à la Russe (ballet)

Scherzo à la Russe is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Stravinsky's music of the same name.

[1] The latter then decided to have the New York City Ballet hold the week-long Stravinsky Festival to honor the composer.

[3]: 317 One of the ballets made for the festival is set to Scherzo à la Russe, which Stravinsky wrote in 1925, for a film project that was abandoned.

[6] Following the premiere, New York Times critic Clive Barnes commented that the ballet "is a slight joke but warm one."

He added, "Balanchine has taken this easy, almost succulent music, and made, slightly irreverently, the kind of Nursemaids’ Dance that he feels that Fokine should have contributed to Petrushka.