LONDON — “What if you tried to put your nose on the floor?” Wayne McGregor asked with a smile. Jeffrey Cirio, an American Ballet Theatre principal, complied. He swerved out of an upper-body undulation ...
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 ...
Boston Ballet will present Winter Experience, a program comprised of two high-octane ballets that have made a mark on dance ...
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 ...
“This music (The Rite of Spring), which was written by Stravinsky in 1913, is some of the greatest music composed in the 20th Century,” Mills said. “It stirs the emotions, in fact, this music evoked ...
The first performance of Vaslav Nijinsky's "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 so shocked the Parisian audience that they rioted in the streets outside the theater. A century later, it's hard to imagine how ...
Consider Tulsa Ballet’s first mixed-bill program of the 2013-2014 season as a prime example of how eloquent a wordless art form can be. Of course ballet can tell a story –– that’s one of the prime ...