When The Rite of Spring, a ballet with a score by Igor Stravinsky, premiered in 1913, theater-goers were so shocked by Stravinsky's relentless, stabbing music and Vaslav Nijinsky's avant-garde choreography that they rioted. A critic went so far as to call the show "a laborious and puerile barbarity." Today, The Rite of Spring is considered […] The post Review: ‘The Rite of Spring’ by Pointless Theat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22PM on May 6, 2018