Ballet le sacre du printemps nijinsky biography
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Controversial ballet “The Rite of Spring” shocks audience in its Paris premiere
On the night of Thursday, May 29, 1913, the pioneering Russian ballet corps Ballet Russes performs Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), choreographed by the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, at the Theatre de Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Now considered a triumph of early modernist dance, the performance elicited a powerful negative reaction from the audience.
Ballet le sacre du printemps nijinsky biography
Some say it inspired a riot.
In founding the Ballet Russes in 1909, the flamboyant impresario Serge Diaghilev was searching for his own version of the Gesamtkunstwerk (or total art form), a concept introduced by the enormously influential German composer Richard Wagner in his book Oper und Drama (1850-51).
Early in the second decade of a new century, Diaghilev saw ballet, and indeed all art, as a means of deliverance from the confines of morality and convention that had ruled Western society in the 19th century. Th