Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps is arguably the most influential score composed for dance in the last century. Premiered to an unsuspecting Parisian audience in 1913, this Modernist ballet was subtitled ‘Scenes of Pagan Russia,’ a moni

The Chosen One: Massine’s Choreographic Rite of Passage

Dec 5th, 2014 25m 28s

Seven years after the succès de scandale of the Stravinsky-Nijinsky-Roerich ballet Le Sacre du printemps, Serge Diaghilev decided to revive the ballet with new choreography by his young protégé, Léonide Massine. The collaboration with Strav

The Spanish Reception of The Rite of Spring : Ballet, Music, Fine Arts (1913-33)

Dec 5th, 2014 52m 19s

This study analyses the reception of The Rite of Spring in the Spanish cultural networks. Although the ballet was only performed in 1913, three years before the first visit of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes to Spain, its influence became notorious

D H Lawrence’s Rite

Dec 5th, 2014 20m 27s

In a notable scene from Women in Love (1920), D. H. Lawrence draws attention to the popularity of Diaghilev’s enterprise as representative of the avant garde in the arts in contemporary Britain. He describes how, following Hermione’s dinner pa

A Bardic Rite? Designing the Savoy Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Dec 5th, 2014 22m 50s

For a few nights in March 1914 if contemplating buying a theatre ticket in London, there was a brief chance when one could have seen Nijinsky dance at the Palace Theatre one night and the next the new Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at

Divining the 1920s: Precious Body Image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 Ballets

Dec 5th, 2014 20m 42s

This paper examines the ways in which dancers’ body image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 ballets The Rite of Spring and Jeux looked forward to 1920s developments in ballet and fashion. Using the psychoanalyst Paul Schilder’s definition of body imag

Disruption in Continuity: The Use of Ornament in The Rite of Spring

Dec 5th, 2014 21m 42s

Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography for the Rite of Spring was structured by movement patterns based on simple geometrical forms – such as circles, triangles, lines and angles – which his dancers incorporated with their bodies and limbs. Repeated ov

A Century of Rites : The Making of an Avant - Garde Tradition

Dec 5th, 2014 1h 7m

A historiography of a century of productions of the Rite of Spring.

Prehistoric Ballets: L’Après Midi d’un Faune as precursor of The Rite of Spring

Dec 5th, 2014 25m 9s

On the 29th of May 1912, exactly a year earlier than the premiere of The Rite of Spring, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had scandalized Parisian audiences with the first performance of another famous ballet choreographed by Nijinsky – L’Apr

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