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 ...

FORT WORTH — Both the Fort Worth and Dallas symphony orchestras paired related works on concerts this week. Following the DSO’s Austro-German program, reviewed separately, the FWSO on Friday presented ...

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 ...

Chinese dance legend and renowned choreographer Yang Liping brings her stunning reimagining of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to Stanford Live in its U.S premiere. A product of her native Chinese culture ...

At the top of the evening Saturday night, the affable new conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Michael Christie took the microphone and reminded audiences of the riots that erupted at the 1913 Paris ...

Opening is common ground[s], a piece made and performed by Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo. Acogny is known as “the mother of contemporary African dance”, and Airaudo was an early member of Pina ...

The anarchic energy and haunting melodies of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” have fascinated generations of dancers and choreographers since the ballet’s première, for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets ...

Back in 2012, when Britain’s arts institutions were flush with the cash and confidence of the cultural olympiad cash and confidence, Sadler’s Wells’ artistic director Alistair Spalding tried to ...

"Rite" is, first and foremost, a modern rendition of a primitive renewal myth. So when Eliade shows how "the idea of renewal is central not only to primitive myth, the religions of the East and early ...