Stravinsky Ballets-- No one doubts that Igor Stravinsky’s collaboration with the Ballets Russes early last century set the standards for most of the innovations in dance as an art form. Stravinsky ...

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 ...

The performance that almost incited the well-heeled of Paris to a ravenous riot is celebrating its centennial. Even now the pounding score of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring that debuted on May ...

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 ...

As a child in Cape Town, South Africa, Sonia Zandile Constable was expected to find a “serious” career in academics or medicine. That may have happened, except for a fateful tea break her teacher took ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

IT WAS THE BALLET heard 'round the world. In 1913, when "The Rite of Spring" premiered in Paris -- with a pulsating score by Igor Stravinsky and groundbreaking choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky -- the ...