#The Rite of Spring

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The Rite of Spring - Fantasia (1940)

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The Rite of Spring and The Firebird.

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When you really think about it, Disney's Fantasia was technically the first AMV ever made.

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much to consider

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Few of my favorite classical theatre pieces that I think suits the spooky season 👀:

- The Rite of Spring (1913)

- Hanjo + Aoinoue (14-15th century)

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Bronislava Nijinska, graduation picture, 1908

Bronislava Nijinska was a Russian ballet dancer of Polish descent and an innovative choreographer. In 1910 she joined Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, where she assisted her famous brother Vaslav Nijinsky in the development of several groundbreaking choreographic works, including The Rite of Spring (1913) composed by Igor Stravinsky.

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the rite of spring

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The Rite of Spring, Sacrifice.

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A section of The Rite of Spring animation sequence from Walt Disney’s Fantasia - 1940.

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hi tumblr this is the first time i post my art on here

shittier drawing under the cut

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HI YOU SAID YOU REALLY LIKE THE RITE OF SPRING CAN YOU TALK ABOUT IT DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT. i’d really really like to hear about it please.

OMG YES so did you know that The Rite of Spring uses an *obscene* amount of ostinato?! If you're not familiar with ostinato, it's a short melody repeated over and over. So Stravinsky just spent the whole piece layering ostinato over ostinato, and it gets ridiculous once you notice them because he just Keeps. Adding. More. And it shouldn't work but it does!

Also (and this is a fun one) the premiere of the ballet famously caused a riot in the theatre, but it's even better when you hear the stories about the riot and about how many people full on lied about being there just to sound cool. One reporter wrote about how the man behind him was so overcome by the driving rhythm, he began pounding on the reporter's head with his fists - only to then admit he'd never actually been at the premiere, he went to see it on another night. Things that DID actually happen included a very wealthy and influential woman crying out "I am sixty years old and this is the first time anyone has dared make fun of me!", boos and shouts so loud that the choreographer had to stand on a chair and shout the steps to the dancers (they couldn't hear the music) and two men who got into a fight and later duelled to resolve it.

Other fun bits of trivia: the bassoon solo that kicks off the piece is actually based on a real Lithuanian folk song! The Rite's story is based around Slavic and particularly Russian indigenous rituals, and while Stravinsky later claimed full credit for everything in the ballet and told the story of coming up with it all in a dream (he did that a lot - guy was actually a bit of an arse who threw his collaborators under the bus in the end) it actually stems from a song called Tu Manu Seserėlė. You can even find the song on YouTube as it's still performed to this day! The ballet ends with a girl dancing herself to death, which makes this last bit of trivia more than a bit uncanny: it's a total coincidence but the very last 4 notes of the piece are D, E, A, D.

So that's just a bit of Rite of Spring fun facts! Thank you for giving me this opportunity to be a gleeful nerd, and I hope this helps you enjoy the Rite that bit more 😁

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Introduction of rexes from different movies.

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for those interested, here is the full tv movie Riot At The Rite (2005) which is about the production & arguably disastrous opening night of igor stravinsky's The Rite of Spring / Le Sacre du Printemps on may 29th 1913. it contains the full ballet, including the reconstructed original choreography by russian ballet dancer vaslav nijinsky, which had actually been lost for 50 years & only rediscovered and pieced back together in i wanna say the 1980s or so

stravinsky had composed Firebird in 1910 and then Petrushka in 1911, which are 2 very beautiful (and normal-sounding) pieces, & Rite of Spring was such a violent departure with no warning for the highbrow paresian audience who had attended expecting classical ballet that they famously flipped out in their seats. screaming, throwing things, blowing whistles, the guys backstage tried turning the house lights on & off to quell the commotion, it was a mess

Rite of Spring is at its core a piece about human beings in prehistoric russia, their rituals to welcome spring, and human sacrifice to "gods" - the names of which im not familiar with, if any. it's the most important piece of music to me in my life, & in my opinion as audience member observing the art & considering its historical context, there could have been no better reception to Rite of Spring than this riot. as the dancers became the characters of those prehistoric men and woman, in the same way the original audience unintentionally became the characters of those gods - in a position of aloof better-than observers looking in, violent, screaming, and foaming at the mouth for blood. in my humble opinion 111 years after the fact, anyway.

happy spring everybody! 🤓

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Wangxian AU but it’s like. A Rite of Spring AU where Wangji dances himself to exhaustion to offer himself as a sacrifice to the death god, but no one told him the death god was a beautiful boy 😳

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The Rite of Spring (original French title Le Sacre du printemps, in Russian Весна священная)

Music composed by Igor Stravinsky. The work was written between 1911 and 1913 for Sergei Djagilev's Russian Ballet company.

Original choreography by Vaclav Nižinskij.

Sketches, sets and costumes by Nikolai Roerich.

The movie Fantasia, by Walt Disney, has one of its animated episodes made on this composition. The Rite segment of the film depicted the Earth's prehistory, with the creation of life, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs as the finale.