Stravinsky's ballet sensation of 1913 shocked its first Paris audience. More than 150 versions later, the far-reaching pull of this modernist masterpiece remains irresistible… For a work that changed the course of dance, introducing a blast of modernism into a conventional art form, Vaslav Nijinsky's The Rite of Spring had a surprisingly short shelf life. Despite more than 130 fraught and complicated rehearsals as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM on February 12, 2023