Michael Fokine’s ballet Le Spectre de la Rose featured only two dancers. He described the intimate stage setting as “a tiny room, the two walls of which meet together in an upstage corner, leaving but little room for dancing. The difficulty lay in confining the dance to such a small space.” The dancers in the original cast were two of the most admired dancers of the early twentieth century: Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina. (Le Spectre de la Rose: music by Carl Maria von Weber, orchestrated by Hector Berlioz; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on April 19, 1911, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.)