This pas de deux followed a performance of La Bayadère at a benefit for Elizaveta Gerdt. Balanchine and Gerdt then danced a pas de deux (excluding the male variation) to the music of Nicolas Tcherepnine’s Le Pavillon d’ Armide, which may or may not have had choreography by Balanchine: Gerdt’s variation was by Fokine, who had choreographed a complete ballet to this music in 1907; Balanchine’s contribution, if he made one, would have been the opening adagio and the closing coda.