For dancer Anique Ayiboe, entering the world of “The Rite of Spring” has been a journey of discovery. The Togolese dancer, who has been traveling and performing with the renowned Pina Bausch ...
Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring, which famously incited audience uproar in its 1913 Paris premiere, is an ...
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 ...
Miranda and husband Richard might as well be at world’s end. When they arrive as the new caretakers on a remote island off ...
The Utah Symphony is performing “The Rite of Spring” where audiences will feel the contrast between the starkness of the desert and the frenetic intensity of spring's awakening. The Utah Symphony’s ...
Sadler’s Wells advertise The Rite of Spring / common ground[s] bill as “iconic” and I'm tempted to agree. It's rare that a programme can be so satisfying - two works so different yet complimentary, ...
Two daring jazz improvisers take on a cherished hundred-year-old classical ballet masterpiece with radical roots on The Rite of Spring: Spectre d'un songe. Igor Stravinsky was fresh off the success of ...
The one thing we can always count on is a new reading of The Rite of Spring. Welcome to London the Dewey Dell, 2023 production at the Purcell Room on the Southbank. The performance opens and closes ...
At its premiere in 1913, Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring shocked audiences and divided critics. The ballet centred around a straightforward yet brutal narrative – a community ...
A strange, bewitching ceremony took place this weekend at Zellerbach Hall. 17 stagehands marched onstage at the show’s intermission, ripped up the gray Marley floor, unfurled a massive dusty black ...
Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022. On May 2 and May 3 the venerated ASO music director laureate conducted a ...
Running and leaping on a hard floor is one thing, but Bausch requires it to happen on a thick carpet of soft, crumbly peat. It takes 10 stagehands a full 30 minutes to cover the Sadler’s stage with ...