Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring from the Baltic Sea Festival

From the Baltic Sea Festival, Dvořák’s lyrical Serenade for Strings in E major is performed by musicians from the Swedish ...
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The Rite of Spring: The return of the ballet masterpiece that caused a riot

In a rehearsal studio lined by floor-to-ceiling mirrors in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Anique Ayiboe is hunched in on herself, a ball of nerves. Tonight, the 33-year-old Togolese member of the ...
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Pina Bausch's 'The Rite of Spring' reborn

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 ...
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Rites of Spring, World War 1 & the Birth of the Modern Age

The Rites of Spring was a 1913 ballet by Igor Stravinsky that was highly modern and sparked a riot in Paris on May 29, 1913, between traditionalists, who were appalled by its modernity, and the ...