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The Joffrey’s reconstructed”Rite of Spring” (photo by Herbert Migdoll) 100 years ago today, the Ballets Russes premiered Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, in Paris. It caused a riot. No—literally. The audience just didn’t know what to make of the work, which was dissonant and rough and not at all like […]

2013 marks a big dance world anniversary: The Ballets Russes premiered Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, 100 years ago. And if you think ballet isn’t exciting, think again: The work was so controversial it actually caused a riot to break out in the theater on its opening night. Seriously—a […]