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We're inviting you to create your own video using the last minute of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Dance it, animate it, improvise it, whatever you like — and then upload your creation to YouTube ...
When The Rite of Spring, a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky and composed by Igor Stravinsky, debuted in Paris in 1913 it sparked one of the most famous riots known in classical music ...
UC Irvine’s dance production based on “The Rite of Spring” may jolt the audience in places, but it won’t have nearly the impact that the original did in 1913. And there are several people ...
Piecing together “The Rite of Spring” was “a great and complicated detective story,” says Millicent Hodson, a choreographer and artist, who with historian and scenic consultant Kenneth ...
Review: “The Rite of Spring / common ground[s]” (4 stars) When: Through Oct. 28. Where: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St. Running time: 2 hours including intermission.
Dancers, drawn from 14 countries across Africa, rehearsing “Rite of Spring” at L’Ecole des Sables in Toubab Dialao, a fishing village outside of Dakar, Senegal, in November.
Schreier has aimed neither to replicate nor match what previous dance-makers have achieved with “The Rite of Spring,” believing there’s much more to unearth in Stravinsky’s score.
The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...
“Rite” enacts the ritual sacrifice of one dancer chosen from the thumping group. Once chosen, her beige dress is traded for a red one, and before her vacant-faced counterparts, she ...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons, presented its final performance of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring ” on Friday. “ The Rite of Spring,” or “Le Sacre du printemps” in ...