Then there's the matchless beauty of the polonaise, the famous opening dance performed by handpicked debutantes, pictured here.
Inevitably, a great many scenes suffered: the garden scene, with its stately polonaise, now consisted of a hurried procession of guests who appeared to be on their way to a .
Chapin has even brought in Choreographer George Balanchine to stage a coolly graceful polonaise.
Wesley Sneijder in FOXSports.com I was disappointed and afterward that just came out for a moment,Sneijder said. "What should I have done, danced the polonaise?"
Vsevolod Meyerhold in New York Times For a scene set at a Polish ball, Meyerhold wrote that he wanted a "full orchestra in a social setting performing three numbers, 'Reverie,' 'Polonaise,' and 'Mazurka,' which Prokofiev composed. Mr. Vasen has placed some of the musicians and the...