Galop is a dance named after the fastest running gait of a horse. Originally a galoppade, a lively country dance, introduced in the late 1820s to Parisian society by the Duchesse de Berry . The faster version of Galop is called a can can.
It was usually the last dance of the evening. So no wonder that the Aram Khachaturian closed his 5 movement suite “Masquerade” written in 1941, incidental music for the play of the same name by Russian poet Lermontov.

Visual classics art by Pascal Barnier introduces you in the world of Parisian society with galops, can-cans, clowns and champagne…