Created by Love EveThe ballet was premiered on November 22, 1928 in the Paris Opera under the direction of Walther Straram and choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska with the dancer Ida Rubinstein. The then 43-year-old Rubinstein danced as the only woman in a group of 20 young dancers. With their erotic, lascivious movements shocked and fascinated she alike the Parisian public. On the exclamation of a spectator "Help, a crazy man," Ravel said to have replied dryly: "She has get it".