#The Rite of Spring

[misohunk]

The Rite of Spring and The Firebird.

[martinijordan]

I took one of those free online Harvard courses on The Rite of Spring (mistaking it for Waltz of the Flowers lmao) and honestly, I think I liked it way more than I expected, I binged the course in one day. Anyway, I decided to do a quick light study and decided Armand should be the chosen sacrifice from the ballet. I included a link to it, its a bit brutal and jarring but idk I like it both the music and the choreography. My favorite section is the Glorification of the Sacrifice & onward.

[theknucklehead]

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

[miss-m-calling]

Dancers of the Tanztheater Wuppertal in Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring

Performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2017

Photos by Stephanie Berger

[barbatusart]

much to consider

[starffis]

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

- The Rite of Spring (1913)

- Hanjo + Aoinoue (14-15th century)

[jpechacek]

the rite of spring

[weaponizedmoth]

The Rite of Spring, Sacrifice.

[nicoooooooon]

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.

[piroshky]

Costume designs for Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Nicholas Roerich, 1913.

[stone-cold-groove]

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

[random-brushstrokes]

Nicholas Roerich - Concept designs for I.F.Stravinsky’s Ballet The Rite of Spring (1910)

[elrondsscribe]

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 😳

[theknucklehead]

Introduction of rexes from different movies.

[risoukyu]

[barbatusart]

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! 🤓