The Rite of Spring

When people think about ballet, they listen to soft rhythm notes and see the ballerina elegantly dancing on the stage shouting. This is also an expectation for people expecting participation in ballet in the early 1900s. However, in 1913, several dynamic artists planned to change the design of ballet, music and dance forever. On May 29, 1913, ballet called Spring Festival in Paris in France was premiered. The original title translated from Russian into French is Le Sa ​​cre du Printemps, which means the ceremony of spring, but the literal translation from Russian to English means "holy spring".

Spring ceremony debuted with avant-garde ballet "Spring Festival" of Igor Stravinsky premiered in Paris, France on May 29th. In premiere, the work was regarded as shameful for the background of the story. It depicts pagan sacrifice, anomalous choreography and luxury costumes in ballet. The music is strongly influenced by European folklore themes and depends on discordant voices, so controversy also arises about music. The audience saw Sergei Diagelev's ballet company dancing with Vaslav Nijinsky choreographer.

Between 1912 and 1913, he created three Barrett - "afternoons of pastoralists", "Jewish" and "Spring ritual". About the Spring Ceremony 'Nijinsky shows a perfect departure from the classical ballet, the dancer's toes turn and their limbs advance at an acute angle rather than a smooth, rounded curve. Throughout his analysis he solved controversial deaths, gender and men's dominance themes, seemed uncomfortable and ugly. Le Sa ​​Casle du Printemps (or the spring ritual), which was first published in 1913, will be considered the most innovative and unique in the early part of this century. It is more similar to some post-modern dances in the past decade, so to do whatever happened since the premiere (Hodson, M 1985 pg. 35)

Pina Bausch's "Spring Festival" has always fascinated me. I have seen her work in 1989 video, but I have not seen his work. What I see in the body are the famous (or infamous) Nijinsky version, the original Rite of Spring reinterpreted by Kenneth Archer and Joffrey Ballet and Millicent Hodson, and the Rite of Spring by Tokyo Ballet of Maurice Bejart. Dance But since the Bausch version seems to be closely related to her Meryl Tankard company in Canberra from 1989 to 1992 and Meryl Tankard which had such influence, mostly me I am bothering you. Finally, the opportunity to see the Bausch version live production appeared in early 2008 when Tanztheater Wuppertal was in London. One day, I made some short, random notes, hoping that they are useful in some circumstances: