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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rites of Spring Music Festival is set for June 16 at The Suffolk in Riverhead, at 7:30 p.m. “As we celebrate a decade of musical innovation on the East End, we’re honored to pay tribute to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You know that smell when spring is coming? An earthy mustiness hangs over the city in March and April as the cold begins to crack and pops of green push through previously snow-covered soil. Seemingly ...

It is so very nice when a movie completely outstrips the expectations conjured by its trailer, as is the case with The Dreamers. At first blush, this tale of three passionate youths caught up in Paris ...

One of the most important dates in classical music is the April 2, 1913, premiere of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” but not for the famous riot that disrupted the ballet in Paris’ Théatre des ...