Nijinsky, Massine & Wigman all jumped at the chance to choreograph this 1913 Stravinsky work
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Did The Rite of Spring really spark a riot? - BBC News - BBC.com  May 29, 2013 ... No art scandal is so scandalous as the 1913 premiere of The Rite of Spring, ... Of all the scandals of the history of art, none is so scandalous as the one that ... of 29 May 1913 in Paris at the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring. ... and critics had heaped abuse on Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography.
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A 'Rite of Spring' that Nijinsky and Stravinsky would recognize ...  Jan 26, 2013 ... A 'Rite of Spring' that Nijinsky and Stravinsky would recognize ... on May 29, 1913, was probably the most inauspicious opening in ballet history. ... to being widely performed, and it is usually presented as an orchestral work. ... Russes presented a new production with choreography by Lonide Massine...
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UCSB Dance 45 Final, Press Flashcards | Quizlet  important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive .... Stravinsky ... Nijinsky's sister, choreographer, dancer, became leading dancer and ... Michel Fokine, Leonide Massine, Bronislava Jijinska, Balanchine and Agnes de .... Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931, brought German modern to U.S. but...
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Free Flashcards about BALLET - StudyStack  NIJINSKY, MASSINE & WIGMAN ALL JUMPED AT THE CHANCE TO CHOREOGRAPH THIS 1913 STRAVINSKY WORK, THE RITE OF SPRING.
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The Rite of Spring 1913: Why did it provoke a riot? - Telegraph  May 16, 2013 ... Igor Stravinsky, the composer, had scored a massive hit the previous ... Vaslav Nijinsky, the choreographer, had caused a minor scandal a few months ... From all indications I can see that this piece is bound to 'emerge' in a way ... begins the work, soon draped with fluttering, twittering woodwind sounds.
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The Rite of Spring - Wikipedia  The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor ... Michel Fokine, the designer Lon Bakst and the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. ... reward was a much bigger commission, to write the music for a new ballet, ...... Le chant du rossignol  Circus Polka  Danses concertantes  Double Canon...
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The Rite of Spring  The two act ballet portrays a tribe through several scenes with processions of maidens, elders, ... One of the dancers recalled that Vaslav Nijinsky's shocking choreography was physically ... Part I: Adoration of the Earth ... Part II: The Sacrifice.
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Chopiniana - Topics  Nijinsky danced it with that company at the Metropolitan Opera on 14 April 1916, where it was ... Chopiniana, staged by Fokine, had a different musical composition. ... The canonical version of the ballet Les Sylphides includes: .... a British musicologist, scholar and biographer of Polish - French composer Frdric Chopin .
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DANCE - THREE WORKS BY BALANCHINE - NYTimes.com  Jun 1, 1986 ... However, the moments when dancers do break loose to traverse the stage come as refreshing choreographic gusts. ... As Prince Ivan, Leonid Kozlov convincingly suggested that he was wandering ... ''Slaughter on Tenth Avenue'' is a sequence from ''On Your Toes,'' the Rodgers and Hart musical of 1936.
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PDF Plus - Edinburgh University Press  in 1912, the choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky provoked much discussion with a work that ... This article discusses one particular work of art, L'Aprs-midi d'un Faune, ... simply would not have caused a scandal had it fitted in with the type of erotic .... to promise the best the Russian Ballet could offer.5 The dancers of the first.
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Keepers Of The Flame | Vanity Fair  No other school can boast the talent that St. Petersburg's Vaganova Ballet Academy ... on the world stage: Pavlova, Nijinsky, Nureyev, and Balanchine, to name just a few. ... side of the famously symmetrical Rossi Street (formerly known as Theater Street and ... It's hard to say if they realize that their training has gone global.
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Vaslav Nijinsky - Tititudorancea  Vaslav Nijinsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine, the son of ethnic Poles, dancers Tomasz ... In 1909 Diaghilev took a company of Russian opera and ballet stars to Paris ... his famous company Les Ballets Russes with choreographer Michel Fokine and ... He danced lead roles in Fokine's new productions Le Spectre de la Rose...
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AN AFTERNOON WITH THE FAUN - Joe Armstrong  It wasn't published until 1876, and it was turned down by his sort-of friend, ... And it goes onespecially with the intervention of ballet, Nijinsky, and ..... piece for solo fluteSyrinxthat was to be played at the beginning of the third act of a play.
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The History of George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet ...  The new company was called Ballet Society, its sporadic performances were to be seen ... After all, it had been the legends of Nijinsky and Pavlova that first drew ... One was the arrival in America of the Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet from ... his childhood at the Maryinsky Theater in St. Petersburgwhere he himself had...
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Free Flashcards about BALLET - StudyStack  IN 1911 THIS GREAT DANCER LEAPT INTO IMMORTALITY WITH HIS ..... WITH HIS MAGNIFICENT EXIT LEAP IN "LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE", NIJINSKY.
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Modern Movement: How The Ballets Russes Revolutionized Dance ...  May 30, 2013 ... Lon Bakst's 1912 costume design for The Afternoon of a Faun. ... No surprise the original was performed just nine times in Paris. ... Diaghilev knew some Russian choreographers and dancers who were also eager ... The story goes that when asked how he jumped so well, Nijinsky answered, "It's simple.
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The Rite of Spring - Wikipedia  The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor ... The Rite was the third such project, after the acclaimed Firebird (1910) and ... world's leading ballet-masters, which gained the work worldwide acceptance. .... Stravinsky was occupied with his second major commission for Diaghilev,...
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The Premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps - Michael Cooke  He left the ballet in June 1912, so Diaghilev turned to Vaslav Nijinsky, his greatest ... as choreographer was on Debussy's L' Apres-Midi d'un Faune in 1912. ... a scandal because of the erotic dancing by Nijinsky at the end of the ballet. ... thus creating difficulties for the dancers that were sometimes impossible to overcome.
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What aspects of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring were the most avant ...  What was so controversial about the Rite of Spring? Everything--just, everything. And it's safe to ... The wind section seems to go a little nuts. According to reports from the time, this was when the audience started to get restless. Then the .... Paris. May 29, 1913 Thursday. In the evening the premiere of The Rite of Spring.
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Slaughter on Tenth Avenue  The George Balanchine Trust  Balanchine originally choreographed Slaughter on Tenth Avenue in 1936 for the musical On ... The show was a parody of Broadway, Russian ballet, and the mob. ... courtesy of and adapted from New York City Ballet Online Repertory Index.
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PRX  Transcripts  Show  22:18 (The Rite of Spring) had the really big riot on May 29, 1913. ... he tapped Stravinsky on the shoulder while he was playing and asked does that go on a ... all the undeniable fact that the audience at the Salle Pleyel in Paris had gone nuts on the ... chords; witness the riot at le Salle Pleyel in Paris at the work's premiere.