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The ballet was presented in bare feet and rejected classical formalism. The work was considered to have an overtly sexual nature and contained a scene of simulated masturbation. L'Apres-midi d'un Faune is considered as one of the first modern ballets and proved to be as controversial as Nijinsky's Jeux ( 1913) and Le Sacre du Printemps ( 1913).
Debussy's 10 minute "Prélude à L’Après-midi d’un Faune" contains one of the most famous passages in musical modernism, the half-step descent to the tritone and ascent of the flute.
Due to its hostle reception the ballet was only in repertoire for a few years before being forgotten and assummed lost. In the late 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends dance notationDance notation is the symbolic representation of dance movement, it is analogous to Movement notation but can be limited to representing human movement and specific forms of dance such as Tap dance. Various methods have been to used to visually represent specialist Ann Hutchinson Guest reconstucted the ballet from Nijinsky's own note books and dance notation. This reconstucted version is often presented with Nijinsky's other works or repertoire from the Ballets Russes.