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When the original Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 ... be used for the response of a few veteran crowd members after Ballet B.C. debuted its starkly avant-garde new RITE last night ...
Feel the raw energy of the score and the anguish of moral conflict brought to an end through violent sacrifice Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring for ... unlike anything ballet audiences had ...
Nigel Lythgoe proves to be the secret ingredient missing from all the hype behind the Joffrey Ballet’s visit to ... of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). The Chicago-based company ...
The influence is obvious in the brilliant colors of The Firebird, but three years later Stravinsky pushed coloristic touches much further in the huge orchestration of The Rite of Spring.
Well, The Rite of Spring. Obviously. If you know only one ... It’s easy to forget it’s a ballet about mob rule and human sacrifice. But maybe that’s precisely why its power is undiminished ...
Ballet Kelowna's own Artistic Director and CEO Simone Orlando returns with her powerfully raw exploration of liberation in Rite of Spring; Vancouver-based choreographer Lesley Telford makes her ...
Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed ... performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign.