less in this part, mostly in the 3rd. The movements are jerky and not graceful, like someone who is impaired with terror. I am not a huge fan of post modern art/music but it is so genuine that you can't ignore it
@@fatovamingus that would explain why i was fixated on this when i had a nervous breakdown and burned out at art school ... ah to feel so understood by two long deceased creative men 😆
I can understand why people flipped out back then. The music and choreography really made me feel anxious the whole time, but never failed to lose my attention. Definitely had some guts back then when it premiered!
If you want to dig at it a bit what happened, only one man was going to come out of that alive. Nijinsky had just been wildly lauded for the provocative piece Afternoon of the Faun. Stravinsky, same thing with The Firebird and Petrushka. Stravinsky had a name and students such as Debussy and was right on the verge of great acclaim. Nijinsky just barely got away with the sexuality of his work in "Afternoon"...so he already had his feet in the fire.
Not really. It only played 9 times? And in Brazil or South America. Diaghilev sent Nijinsky on the road with it then cut him when he married, jealous French stuff. This choreography was not accepted until 1987 when the Joffrey debuted the unearthed masterpiece. Nijinsky ended up diagnosed a schizophrenic...I wonder if maybe he had the break during this.
Nijinsky had signs of mental illness throughout his life, but hings got progressively worse after he got married and was cut off by Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes. Slow, tragic, downward spiral.
@@josephmoore4764 Nijinsky just threaded a needle with l'apres midi d'un faun and I'm sure the audience felt that there was no way it could get any crazier. in some ways it did and it was just the perfect storm. Roerich's concept Stravinsky's explosion of music and Nijinsky's far from conventional ballet was just too much for these stuffy bastards. And so rather than trying check it out expand themselves they threw a fit. And the Nijinski was the effigy. Years later the maestro would say "they were very naive and stupid people they didn't know art"
Stravinsky said that his opening introduction “should represent the awakening of nature, the scratching, gnawing, wiggling of birds and beasts.” I think it does!
Hector Berlioz LOL! You would have had to listen to the background music on Star Trek over the years. Much of this shows up in bits and pieces through various episodes. He knows from what he speaks.
I think I get why there were riots. You're an art-minded Parisian, you want to go to the ballet to see grace and beauty in motion, and the ballet starts you see this goofy crap. It's one thing to defy expectations, but this is NOTHING like anything you expected or even wanted to see. But then there's another side of this that you (an art-minded Parisian, remember) never expected: this really is effective at tapping into something primal in us, that part of us that still understands we're at the mercy of the elements and the whim of nature. You totally don't expect that to be dredged up, and you probably can't even put words to it. A room full of people with a lot of emotions roiling and bubbling and overflowing .... yeah I could see people going nuts for no rational reason.
+kingbeauregard +MolecularMoonlight believe it or not, the riots were a more of a response to a Ballet being premiered in a concert hall as opposed to a theater more than anything else. Primitivism was once of Stravinsky's modes of influence but keep in mind that this was premiered in France that was being overtaken by the Futurist movement at the time. Social systemization was being challenged which included the way people view art and performance etiquette - i.e. you didn't premiere a ballet in a concert hall particularly one that is so perceptually vulgar
That's a cool video, thanks! Stravinsky blames it on his audience being stupid, but I still think he might have underestimated how effective TRoS was at tapping into the primal. I felt it the first time I saw it, maybe they did too. That said, I want my sister's special ed class to perform TRoS and I am perfectly willing to go to hell for that.
Nicholas Roerich conceived the entire thing right down to the costumes. Now that was a fringe thinker. My father is a jazz musician - like the kind of jazz only jazz musicians like - and his best gig was at a childrens deaf school. I was there. It was...man, I can't think of the word. But your sister's special ed class will interpret The Rite without any preconceived ideas about music or riots...I think it would be perfect. PLEASE write me and let me know if this happens. fatova@yahoo.com
Image this ballet in 1913, when people expected ballets like Swanlake or the Nutcracker. With beautiful movements and pink tutu's. And then you get this ballet! AMAZING! I adore Diaghilev, Nijinsky & Stravinsky. This is what art is all about.
I love the fact that you continue discussing the ballet with such passion and enthusiasm for years! Thank you! (And I love this performance, well, that`s obvious)
They had just accepted Nijinsky's very sexual "Afternoon of the Faun (Debussy) and Stravinsky's Firebird. These were both edge offers to Paris. They both up'd the ante in both composition and choreography and did it TOGETHER. Thank God they did it. It opened the door for experiment for the life of art.
@@helios3557 the spring rounds choreography is so unbelievable. There's three pieces to this choreography cuz it was the original upload so don't forget to watch them all
The musical piece doesn’t fully make sense until you see this reconstruction of the original choreography. As a former dancer myself I found this performance incredibly bizarre, creepy, and unsettling. Absolutely mesmerizing and magnificent!!!
I love your comment. About 8 years ago music theory students were being told to watch this in the Rite.of Spring course... You got to go read them because these kids were of the minds that this piece was intense and frightening on its own and then they watched the ballet and couldn't sleep at night. Ha
@@fatovamingus too funny!!! 😂 I saw an orchestral performance of it in November and it was SO cool live. Hopefully some day I will have the opportunity to see the ballet!!! I truly think they need to be performed together as was originally intended! 😆
@@k.c.3022 look up les dissonances Rite of Spring. This is the coolest orchestra ever. All that was missing is standing up and slamming their violins on the ground when they were done. Here: th-cam.com/video/al1MZNTz9OE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5e44_SuPXkc7hwHH
Imagine writing something so fresh and so groundbreaking, it causes an audience of art snobs and gentry to *riot*. We could only wish to hold that kind of power.
He was willing to sacrifice his entire career for this ballet and it happened. Stravinsky became the greatest living composer and Vaslav Nijinsky was erased. 70 years went by and this was found finally pieced together painstakingly through Robert joffrey's philanthropy. We are a huge debt of gratitude to this dude. You're right about we should only be able to experience such a thing to be able to give up everything risk your entire career because you were so certain that what you did was right as an artist wow I think only Frank Zapp is the only other person who did it.
Truly wonder if John Williams was inspired by this when he made the jaws score. The dissonant tones, repetitive striking cords is eerie as hell, much like the shark's music
Just like " Mars" inspired" The Imperial March" and "Superman" owes more than a little to " Fanfare for the common man" John Williams only steals from the best😎
This resurrection and preservation of an historical work is to be highly commended, as it speaks volumes to the cultural mileu of its origin. The reaction of the patronage world is also a very important story! It would be an excellent comparative study for today. Robert Joffrey was the modern link who reconnected the living memories of the original.
Based on this deep observation, I would be interested in your opinion on this piece from my blog: igorandmore.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-nijinsky-inheritance.html
That's what I love so much about this "anti-ballet"....people who don't much of a taste for dance arts find themselves blown away by this. This is what breakthroughs in history do...they reach past their target audience and involve us all. Greetings from Boston!
Wonderful. Spine-tingling. A window to the ballet past we all hold so dear, and also to the choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky, rightly beloved and mourned to this day. His genius will never die. His loss was a grievous one, and the loss of ballet and all he knew a far greater loss to the man himself, when he fell ill. Thank you for this! Thank you so much.
Absolutely! I agree. This work can take a wee while to get into but it is worth persevering and watching many times as it becomes more and more compelling. Soon the viewer comes to LOVE that initially-maddening and confusing Stravinsky score. This ballet was way ahead of its time, as was all Nijinsky's choreography, whether it was hit or miss with contempory audiences.
im full blooded native american, and i am taking a music course in college, and stravinsky is one of the famous music inspirations we studied, and once i saw this, i thought it was absolutely marvelous, im suppose to be on christmas vacation but im baffled, and am determined to finish this entire ballet!!!
I just love listening to it. It is the groundbreaker for all that followed. I just recently saw the dance part and it is just as moving as the music! 11th century life! Is that correct costumes?
Joffrey's is the one to see. When they did the recreation there were still people around who had seen the 1913 version and could help with the look and the choreography. Thrilling!
I came here to see all the hub-bub because of NPR. They talked about this Ballet and the Riot of 1913 and they did a neurologcal study about sound as touch. There were also several other interesting articles on their site about this piece of work which got me curious about the dancing as much as the music so I needed to find one that did not have any other interpretation to the work other than Nijinsky and Stravinsky. Frankly, I enjoyed it. Joffrey's a good man for having preserved the work as best as he could, we are more enlightened for it . . . . (looks at other comments) well, almost everyone. :)
So you are a music major who was forced to watch the ballet in the process of your rite of spring course? Because that's pretty much all that happens here and I love it
It’s a fantastically challenging ballet - not one to sit in the audience and drift off. I have so much respect for artists who try something different, knowing the people of their day may not like it but that future generations will see it for what it was- ahead of its time. It’s tense, anxiety-inducing and almost beastial. Love it.
I love your comments! The story was based on receiving the gifts to the earth for the tribe each year and they would stamp the energy in for the earth to thrive for the year - but had to appease the sun god with a sacrifice. Who would dance herself to death for him in the last 5 minutes of the ballet. Wild
Ok, never been into ballet nor been willing to watch any on tv, but after watching this It just "STUNNED" me, really !! Amazing !! Had to watch "riot at the rite" the tv movie version right after, couldn't get enough of it.
I've watched this performance several times now and each time I am overwhelmed by how powerful and beautiful this piece really is. Thank you again for sharing.
Oh yes how yes you guys are back! Every year the composition students are sent here to watch the ballet so that they can really get the full impact of what was happening that night and I have 10000 followers that are mostly music students and we have so much fun talking about this. So tell me what you you think about it
@@fatovamingus that's hilarious! am not a student. but this piece comes into my consciousness every couple years. I can never get into the actual ballet though. it makes me feel too ...weird- and detracts from my enjoyment of the piece (i'm aware this was originally written precisely for the ballet)
Thank you Fatova...! We went the other night to the Joffrey's LA Rite at the Dorothy Chandler... it was awesome! My fiancee dances, so it was a real treat to see it live.
@@fatovamingus I was visiting my soon to be wife, who was on a scholarship in Vienna. I recall that it was March?, and we were looking for cultural things around the city, which as you may know, is a very easy task. I was a budding ballet fan, but didn't have in depth knowledge. We bought student rush tickets for the equivalent of 5 dollars, and sat almost at the top of the theater, but dead center. Though so many years ago, I recall the racing in my heart, and the tingling in my brain, seeing the primitivity of the movement and the pounding music.
Because it's scary! This was the libretto :ancient Pagan Russia asking a sun god to rain energy to the Earth which they stomp into it so the crops will grow but of course you know how it is with sun gods - they want a virgin. So it's like the whole thing is working up to the very end : who's going to die! By jumping herself to death of 143 leaps in less than 5 minutes. But listen to the music I mean what the hell else could be done it had to be radical. Thank you for commenting please come back
My God! How tragic it would have been to have lost this singular work forever! If it continues to shock us in 2012, can one imagine its impact in 1913? I'd like to think that had I been there, I would have been on my feet shouting 'bravo' and 'brilliant' when it concluded, and not one of the lemmings running out in dismay and disgust!
I saw a revival of this a few years ago in Chicago by the Joffrey and it was mesmerizing to see in person. I believe the costumes and dancing were recreations of the original ROS that was based on a research for a doctoral thesis many years earlier. Amazingly, there exists quite a lot of detailed information from various sources about the actual performance and reviews in the papers, in addition to notes and sketches from Stravinsky himself and other contemporaries.
There are a lot of different stories if Robert Kraft is doing any of the talking you should disregard it. I personally like this one because it's full of facts the real people it's kind of entertaining and I made it. It also gets into great wild detail of how dr. Kenneth Archer counted every Circle and square on the costumes to make sure they were accurate I mean who does that? th-cam.com/video/8pCCujH2x3w/w-d-xo.html
I feel like I missed so many comments. Because there was a second version of this ballet created after Nijinsky was booted because he stopped having sex with Diaghilev, there were two set designs two separate costumes and Dr Kenneth Archer spent 10 years counting circles and squares on these costumes to make sure he got it right. I can't think of anything more tedious than that but thank God somebody found it valuable.
thank you so much for this clear picture version! I've never seen it with this clarity, even in the DVD and old VHS version that I had. great to see the costumes and movements with such clarity.
I bet Stravinsky and Nijinsky would be amused (and a little sad) that even over 100 years later some people can't except this. If you don't like the music and dance, fair enough, it would be a boring world if we all liked the same. But Nijinsky's choreography (over a more "traditional" one) is awesome and flows with the music brilliantly. So glad the Joffrey went through the effort.
Exactly. THis was an event: the music, the libretto, Nijinsky's schizophrenia just breaking, right before WWI...this more than a breakthrough moment in music/dance. It was a marker in time.
If you listen to early Mothers like "Burnt Weenie Sandwich" (which has a song called "Igor's Boogie" btw) you can hear the influence Stravinsky had on Zappa. By the time Hot Rats came out though it wasn't that great.
Yes, great album. Although it was released around the same time as Hot Rats (just a few months after); which makes it interesting that you can hear Stravinsky in one but not much in the other. But then that's Zappa. He wrote/played what felt right to him at any particular time and some influences were more predominant as a result. Never static.
Ok I just watched it. And I loved it. This is coming from a person who had never been fond of ballet. I'm turned off by all of the frou frou costumes, and graceful movements. I usually wanna fall asleep 30 minutes into it. But this opening scene caught my attention right away. i know im over simplifing ballet but remember, im not expert in this genre. so what do i know. imho.
Going back over what comments TH-cam DIDN'T delete I find yours. This is like a sampler of 8 different symphonies. Act One is dizzying. Stravinsky was born to change the world.
I first came across this three-ish years ago, i was a senior in high school and for our marching band show our composer incorporated a bit of the music from this into the score. our directors encouraged us to listen to the actual piece, so i did. and i was confused out of my damn mind. but I loved it. I didn't understand it then, I still don't really understand it now, but I dont care. listening to this brings me so much happiness, I remember listening to this with my friends at lunch during band rehearsals and looking up what it all meant and playing it on bus rides to marching competitions to get ourselves in the zone. i know it probably sounds a little dumb lmao but honestly it brings back really happy and funny memories. thanks for posting.
This is one of the happiest comments I've ever seen I'm so glad you wrote. I hope the ballet lived up to it I think the ritual Act of the ancestors in Act 2 is the most explosive moment!!
it's one of the greatest and most influential ballets every written, and as a music student I can tell you that we LOVE Stravinsky. Not to mention it's more than a hundred years old. it's suppose to be weird :)
Yes! This was the first performance in 70 years.... They had nothing to go by no video just their own raw emotion and commitment to the story and you can see it! I love your comment!
@@hk6970 one of the women that danced The Chosen One in this masterpiece- her name is Zenaida Zanowsky - she chose to do that MacMillan shit show for her retirement.
@@fatovamingus No way, how could she be so tasteless? If I were a ballerina and performed the MacMillan Ballet, I would have hide it like a sin lol. I mean there are many unoriginal bland versions of Rite of Spring out there, but the MacMillan takes the cake for the ugliest one. (At least of all the ones I have seen) All this versions prove Nijinsky was truly a visionary and can't be topped even after all this years imo.
Still startling after 100 years; like seeing a great wave advancing, terrible and beautiful. Stravinsky said that the Sacre "passed through him" rather than arose through through the effort of composing. I imagine this is technique and idea enjoying each other's company in the the most pure and creative form. A thing of itself; forever new.
I was lucky to find it. I am looking for a video of the Paris Opera Ballet from the early 90's with Marie-Claude Pietragalla dancing the Chose One role. I think it may be impossible.
Guys thank you because I don't know about these things and I can't share it with the dancers to see how they react. Keep coming back I need to learn things! And ask me any question
When I was reading a Wikipedia entry on Stravinky, I came upon the section talking about th riot that broke out during his performance debut. When I was able to find out what piece it was, I thought to myself "I MUST find a live performance of Stravinky that literally caused a RIOT". I honestly assumed I wouldn't be able to find a copy online. Luckily , people like you care enough to post this online for posterity. Thanks.
I don’t know anything about Eurovision. But the nervous tics during the Augurs of Spring seem very reminiscent of the movements of a certain president who likes green shirts after he partakes in specific white powders.
@wicked4ever62442 Thank you, wicked4ever, for clearing that up for me. I'm glad I found this; I was a bit confused over which was the original choregraphy for the play when I saw one of the videos in the recommendations column (that other video was hedonism and pelvic thrusts -excuse my redundancy, heheh). This one video was something I truly haven't seen. I'm amazed no one fell.
The 100th anniversary is soon upon us, May 29th 1913 of the premiere of this wonderful and extraordinary ballet. I hope some ballet company is going to perform this ballet for that special day.
th-cam.com/video/8pCCujH2x3w/w-d-xo.html. I threw this together a while back but it's full of Stravinsky's explanation of how he was a vessel that received this music because nothing had been written that could guide him. It's it actually gives you goosebumps it's that good
This is still my favorite ballet, magnificent score by Stravinsky. Ninety-ninth anniversary of its premier May 29. Watching it perhaps for the fiftieth time, been familiar the score for at least fifty years.
I commented this on a different video, and for posterity, I will comment it here too. I still see dinosaurs. This was always my favorite part of Fantasia.
As music and dance critic of The Milwaukee Journal, I attended the scholarly conference on the Rite reconstruction in Chicago -- I believe it was in the fall of 1987 -- the Joffrey Ballet's home. About 15 years of research went into the reconstruction of Nijinsky's 1913 ballet. They had the design drawings for the sets and costumes and reproduced them to the last details. They had the notebooks of Marie Rambert, who was Nijinsky's assistant during the creation of the work. I believe they had other idiosyncratic dance notations of the work at hand, as well as written accounts of Paris and London performances, along with dancer recollections. Lots of interviews were involved. The Chicago premiere was an electric event. The program included Bronislava Nijinska's "Les Noces," another "primitivist" ballet based on Russian folkways. (I like "Rite" a lot, but I think "Les Noces" -- "The Wedding" -- is the better dance.) And now, just in case other posters care to know what they're talking about, here's Jack Smith's informational advance story on The Joffrey's performance in New York, 1987: www.nytimes.com/1987/10/25/arts/the-joffrey-ballet-restores-nijinsky-s-rite-of-spring.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BE0.mYt6._MXMsv5Eqbvh&smid=url-share
Thank you. You got nearly all of it right. Were Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer not as intent on recovering this ballet before its champion Robert Joffrey passed away, we would have to suffer the awful existing choreographies forever. They are too humble and magnanimous to agree with me on that and would likely give me a soft lecture. They say never meet your heroes but I disagree.
@@fatovamingus As you know, Stravinsky's music has been catnip for many choreographers. That will continue to be the case. I like Pina Bausch's take on it. Saw it in L.A. in 1984. th-cam.com/video/z3vZeAmcjf4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5HeJMLc0Qjx-OHbm
@@tstrini1 I changed my notices on comments because I NEVER saw this! Am I a prude to dislike choreographies to this masterpiece that show tits or full nudity and nearly always a sexualization of the Glorification? I imagine that Stravinsky would not have liked it. It's pedestrian to me. So you have seen the "Four Variants" which is Nijinsky, Preljocaj, Bausch and Tero Saarinen... HE KILLED. Have you seen it? It is called Hunt and he did something pretty breakthrough at that time and I am so interested in knowing if you like it: he used a multimedia experiment where he is moving very little in places and light and imagery are projected on to him! The only other I like is from Heddy Maalem *Spring Rounds* th-cam.com/video/JE3iQNP8lNQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=57vduts5yyN_ZYYb Please write - I would like to ask a question of two and see if you would write something for the ballet archive. thisisfatova at gmail
Theory students were not being forced to watch this until 2012-ish. And you can see in the early comments how freaked out it made them. I love you guys
I apologize for the delay TH-cam has an issue with me and I never get my notifications. And I want you to know it took me almost 16 years to figure out what you meant with this comment. I had to get out my Abacus and figure it out but now I get it and it is something isn't it
even today, even after 15 years work to recover a masterpiece like this lost for 70 years, people still find it ugly. I think without the backstory it is hard. Where is the beauty for you? 4:56 is where it happens for me in this part (this is one of 3).
Might I just give a shout-out to the absolutely incredible costuming and face-painting work that just adds so much to creating this scene? I've always loved the music, and the choreography is great of course, but the costumes do more to set the scene than anything else.
I swear to god this is what the people who live above me are doing at 3am every night
I keep thinking about this comment, hilarious.
Perfect comment. I hope they've stopped!
they are probably Stravinsky fans
I've been coming here just to laugh at this comment 😂
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This dancing and music emulates what I can only describe as pure fear. That's a hard emotion to portray, I have lots of respect for this piece.
I love reading this. These are the things that I wish for Nijinsky to have heard.
less in this part, mostly in the 3rd.
The movements are jerky and not graceful, like someone who is impaired with terror. I am not a huge fan of post modern art/music but it is so genuine that you can't ignore it
It may not surprise you then that this - Nijinsky's masterpiece and downfall was choreographed around the time he had a schizophrenic break.
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@@fatovamingus that would explain why i was fixated on this when i had a nervous breakdown and burned out at art school ... ah to feel so understood by two long deceased creative men 😆
My mother danced in this recording
Contrabassology really? Who? Where?
Ah, that's really cool ! =D
That actually looks like it was fun to preform
She must have been a good dancer
@@zagiproductions1630 from what i've heard it's really ducking hard
I can understand why people flipped out back then. The music and choreography really made me feel anxious the whole time, but never failed to lose my attention. Definitely had some guts back then when it premiered!
They got pissed because of the dancers and the choreography. The second time this performed (without the dance) was a huge success
If you want to dig at it a bit what happened, only one man was going to come out of that alive. Nijinsky had just been wildly lauded for the provocative piece Afternoon of the Faun. Stravinsky, same thing with The Firebird and Petrushka. Stravinsky had a name and students such as Debussy and was right on the verge of great acclaim. Nijinsky just barely got away with the sexuality of his work in "Afternoon"...so he already had his feet in the fire.
Not really. It only played 9 times? And in Brazil or South America. Diaghilev sent Nijinsky on the road with it then cut him when he married, jealous French stuff. This choreography was not accepted until 1987 when the Joffrey debuted the unearthed masterpiece. Nijinsky ended up diagnosed a schizophrenic...I wonder if maybe he had the break during this.
Nijinsky had signs of mental illness throughout his life, but hings got progressively worse after he got married and was cut off by Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes. Slow, tragic, downward spiral.
Thankyou for putting this up on TH-cam
"He's probably out there cheating on me."
Me and the boys in a park at 2 am:
Society: Ah the ballet, so beautiful. And the ballerinas, so graceful.
Ballerinas: *wanna see us do some weird shit then sacrifice someone?*
Nice. I love a good f.u. to the French. Should happen more often.
I have to pin this ok?
It sure pissed off Saint-Saens.
I wonder if he was disturbed(because this was SAW level for that era)
or he just didn't like the piece
It was weird enough to cause a riot when it debuted
@@josephmoore4764 Nijinsky just threaded a needle with l'apres midi d'un faun and I'm sure the audience felt that there was no way it could get any crazier. in some ways it did and it was just the perfect storm. Roerich's concept Stravinsky's explosion of music and Nijinsky's far from conventional ballet was just too much for these stuffy bastards. And so rather than trying check it out expand themselves they threw a fit. And the Nijinski was the effigy. Years later the maestro would say "they were very naive and stupid people they didn't know art"
Stravinsky said that his opening introduction
“should represent the awakening of nature, the scratching, gnawing, wiggling of
birds and beasts.”
I think it does!
No way! I believe it though. I have that movie "Once At A Border"...awesome. I am sure he talks about it there. I am glad you commented.
I've seen the quote in a couple of different places. Not familiar with the movie you mention. I'll have to look into it.
It looks like Nijinsky and Stravinsky still shock people after more than 100 years. That's the undeniable evidence of their genius. :)
very true
I shocked my gf by hiding behind a door and making a loud noise when she wasn't expecting it. Am I a genius?
Absolutely.
@@ArticulatedHypernova of the lowest caliber but yes, still a genius.
If this still surprises people in modern times, I can hardly IMAGINE the SHOCK people felt seeing this for the first time in 1917.
My favorite episode of Star Trek.
Connor Hay what?
Hector Berlioz LOL! You would have had to listen to the background music on Star Trek over the years. Much of this shows up in bits and pieces through various episodes. He knows from what he speaks.
joanofarc33 this piece is mimmicked all over the place. Max Steiner clipped at it a lot.
+Connor Hay What episode are you talking about?
Connor Hay I love that episode too!! Another Star Trek fan. Hence the username, TOSTS stands for The Original Star Trek Series, LOL.
This gave me flashbacks to watching Disney's Fantasia as a kid.
Homeslice Riley same
This music always made me sick, even before I knew the history of the piece. Scared me even more than the visuals from Night on Bald Mountain.
Screaming Weevil still makes me feel sick 😰
WITH THE DINOSAURS?!?!
Screaming Weevil oh my god yes that one was terrifying with the demon looking guy.
I used to listen to this transfixed when I was 10 years old. 60 years later and I haven't changed. Now I can watch it.
me too.. I have fond memories of my father and the rite of spring. Always playing. or Zappa.
I have been reading about this reconstruction of the original choreography and am so happy to see that you've posted this. Thank you so much!
I think I get why there were riots. You're an art-minded Parisian, you want to go to the ballet to see grace and beauty in motion, and the ballet starts you see this goofy crap. It's one thing to defy expectations, but this is NOTHING like anything you expected or even wanted to see.
But then there's another side of this that you (an art-minded Parisian, remember) never expected: this really is effective at tapping into something primal in us, that part of us that still understands we're at the mercy of the elements and the whim of nature. You totally don't expect that to be dredged up, and you probably can't even put words to it. A room full of people with a lot of emotions roiling and bubbling and overflowing .... yeah I could see people going nuts for no rational reason.
It's so....DARK and CREEPY O.o
+kingbeauregard +MolecularMoonlight believe it or not, the riots were a more of a response to a Ballet being premiered in a concert hall as opposed to a theater more than anything else. Primitivism was once of Stravinsky's modes of influence but keep in mind that this was premiered in France that was being overtaken by the Futurist movement at the time. Social systemization was being challenged which included the way people view art and performance etiquette - i.e. you didn't premiere a ballet in a concert hall particularly one that is so perceptually vulgar
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That's a cool video, thanks! Stravinsky blames it on his audience being stupid, but I still think he might have underestimated how effective TRoS was at tapping into the primal. I felt it the first time I saw it, maybe they did too.
That said, I want my sister's special ed class to perform TRoS and I am perfectly willing to go to hell for that.
Nicholas Roerich conceived the entire thing right down to the costumes. Now that was a fringe thinker. My father is a jazz musician - like the kind of jazz only jazz musicians like - and his best gig was at a childrens deaf school. I was there. It was...man, I can't think of the word. But your sister's special ed class will interpret The Rite without any preconceived ideas about music or riots...I think it would be perfect. PLEASE write me and let me know if this happens. fatova@yahoo.com
Image this ballet in 1913, when people expected ballets like Swanlake or the Nutcracker. With beautiful movements and pink tutu's. And then you get this ballet! AMAZING! I adore Diaghilev, Nijinsky & Stravinsky. This is what art is all about.
I love the fact that you continue discussing the ballet with such passion and enthusiasm for years!
Thank you!
(And I love this performance, well, that`s obvious)
You know i am so happy to read this but feel disappointed that I can not add more video....I wioll keep trying!!
A riot worthy ballet... I am not disappointed 👏
It is revolutionary even today. One of the students here said they should choreograph the riot and I couldn't agree more!
@@fatovamingus that's actually a wonderful idea, they should definitely do it 🙏🙏
this just blows my mind every time I see it..i want it performed at my funeral
THAT is so bad ass. You are the coolest person ever.
No it'll just unsettle your distant relatives
HA now i get it. Unsettle the relatives at the funeral. That is in my bucket: ruin my funeral for everyone
Why would you want that? Dont get me wrong, I love this but... Why?
@@charleyhibschweiler4555 WHY NOT??😂😂
I can see how this would upset Parisians in 1913. The dancing is really unorthodox. Dare I say, savage even? I personally enjoy it for its weirdness.
They had just accepted Nijinsky's very sexual "Afternoon of the Faun (Debussy) and Stravinsky's Firebird. These were both edge offers to Paris. They both up'd the ante in both composition and choreography and did it TOGETHER. Thank God they did it. It opened the door for experiment for the life of art.
More than a century away. And yet, could we possibly picture something so bewildering, so refreshingly revolutionary nowadays?
BlitztheDragon The first postmodern interpretive dance. He was ahead of his time. The world just wasn’t ready for it.
Writing a paper on this currently and oh my gosh the choreography adds SO MUCH
@@helios3557 the spring rounds choreography is so unbelievable. There's three pieces to this choreography cuz it was the original upload so don't forget to watch them all
this may help: th-cam.com/video/4LVwibMyqbQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=hlsBECLIKkEA6hWE
The costumes and dancing are terrifying. No wonder there were riots at the premiere.
I remember first learning about this in my music appreciate class. The second the choreography started I was hooked!
+Freezie Pop Same with me. How peculiar.
+Freezie Pop There isn't a music major who studies the Rite that doesn't end up watching Nijinsky's masterpiece.
AACC?
+Freezie Pop The second the music started I was hooked!
+Freezie Pop Same here!
Dancing along to this is a great work out.
YES
who's here for music class??
Every teen in here
history ftw
Devin Zhou yep
BAND BITCHES
yep
The musical piece doesn’t fully make sense until you see this reconstruction of the original choreography. As a former dancer myself I found this performance incredibly bizarre, creepy, and unsettling. Absolutely mesmerizing and magnificent!!!
I love your comment. About 8 years ago music theory students were being told to watch this in the Rite.of Spring course... You got to go read them because these kids were of the minds that this piece was intense and frightening on its own and then they watched the ballet and couldn't sleep at night. Ha
@@fatovamingus too funny!!! 😂 I saw an orchestral performance of it in November and it was SO cool live. Hopefully some day I will have the opportunity to see the ballet!!! I truly think they need to be performed together as was originally intended! 😆
@@k.c.3022 look up les dissonances Rite of Spring. This is the coolest orchestra ever. All that was missing is standing up and slamming their violins on the ground when they were done. Here:
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@@fatovamingus amazing!!!!!!!
Imagine writing something so fresh and so groundbreaking, it causes an audience of art snobs and gentry to *riot*. We could only wish to hold that kind of power.
He was willing to sacrifice his entire career for this ballet and it happened. Stravinsky became the greatest living composer and Vaslav Nijinsky was erased. 70 years went by and this was found finally pieced together painstakingly through Robert joffrey's philanthropy. We are a huge debt of gratitude to this dude. You're right about we should only be able to experience such a thing to be able to give up everything risk your entire career because you were so certain that what you did was right as an artist wow I think only Frank Zapp is the only other person who did it.
Did I ever tell you about the kid who said why don't they reconstruct the riot or at least do a flash mob? I thought it was stellar
Truly wonder if John Williams was inspired by this when he made the jaws score. The dissonant tones, repetitive striking cords is eerie as hell, much like the shark's music
every composer was affected and inspired by this piece
Just like " Mars" inspired" The Imperial March" and "Superman" owes more than a little to " Fanfare for the common man" John Williams only steals from the best😎
This resurrection and preservation of an historical work is to be highly commended, as it speaks volumes to the cultural mileu of its origin. The reaction of the patronage world is also a very important story! It would be an excellent comparative study for today. Robert Joffrey was the modern link who reconnected the living memories of the original.
Based on this deep observation, I would be interested in your opinion on this piece from my blog: igorandmore.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-nijinsky-inheritance.html
@@fatovamingus Thank you very much, I will read.
That's what I love so much about this "anti-ballet"....people who don't much of a taste for dance arts find themselves blown away by this. This is what breakthroughs in history do...they reach past their target audience and involve us all. Greetings from Boston!
Love this choreography, goes so well with the composition. I would love to see this in person.
It is a difficult production 52 dancers, 101 musicians. Russia does it on the regular. Keep your eyes open....
I do not know where you are but I am going to see if the Joffrey will tour. it will be recorded music but that first half is spell bindingn
@@fatovamingus Great i will look into it. I live in Central Texas, What about you?
@@oscarresendiz3014 Northeast . Tell Beto I said hi # Beto2024
Wonderful. Spine-tingling. A window to the ballet past we all hold so dear, and also to the choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky, rightly beloved and mourned to this day. His genius will never die. His loss was a grievous one, and the loss of ballet and all he knew a far greater loss to the man himself, when he fell ill. Thank you for this! Thank you so much.
They do be vibin tho
hell yeah. had to pin that
fo sho
Absolutely! I agree. This work can take a wee while to get into but it is worth persevering and watching many times as it becomes more and more compelling. Soon the viewer comes to LOVE that initially-maddening and confusing Stravinsky score. This ballet was way ahead of its time, as was all Nijinsky's choreography, whether it was hit or miss with contempory audiences.
Peace Was Never An Option.
Would have killed the ballet....wait. It WAS killed after 9 performances and then lost 75 years
im full blooded native american, and i am taking a music course in college, and stravinsky is one of the famous music inspirations we studied, and once i saw this, i thought it was absolutely marvelous, im suppose to be on christmas vacation but im baffled, and am determined to finish this entire ballet!!!
Thank you for doing this! The Human race may not be perfect ...this shows that we always strived to a higher Plane of conscientiousness!
i love this comment. I may understand it or I may not but "we always strived" is never a bad sentiment! Thank you!
I just love listening to it. It is the groundbreaker for all that followed. I just recently saw the dance part and it is just as moving as the music! 11th century life! Is that correct costumes?
I got to see this live in Chicago in the 1980s. What a treat and a treasure.
How wonderful!! Did you see Carole Valleskey a the ChosenOne? I am told she was amazing.
@@fatovamingus No.
Joffrey's is the one to see. When they did the recreation there were still people around who had seen the 1913 version and could help with the look and the choreography. Thrilling!
Just imagine sitting at the opera house in 1913, only used to balett and such, and see this.
Oh an absolute shock! They were not prepared for Stravinsky then the ballet began. I have a commentary here of Stravinsky's
I came here to see all the hub-bub because of NPR. They talked about this Ballet and the Riot of 1913 and they did a neurologcal study about sound as touch. There were also several other interesting articles on their site about this piece of work which got me curious about the dancing as much as the music so I needed to find one that did not have any other interpretation to the work other than Nijinsky and Stravinsky. Frankly, I enjoyed it. Joffrey's a good man for having preserved the work as best as he could, we are more enlightened for it . . . . (looks at other comments) well, almost everyone. :)
This piece brought me to tears as well. My sides are still in orbit!
such a passionate comment I love it.
My music teacher showed us this and I loved it! Has a unique vibe and feeling.
So you are a music major who was forced to watch the ballet in the process of your rite of spring course? Because that's pretty much all that happens here and I love it
@@fatovamingus pretty much 😂
I fell in love with this music when I was just a kid and heard it in Fantasia. Since then, I have only grown to love it more.
It’s a fantastically challenging ballet - not one to sit in the audience and drift off. I have so much respect for artists who try something different, knowing the people of their day may not like it but that future generations will see it for what it was- ahead of its time. It’s tense, anxiety-inducing and almost beastial. Love it.
I am right there with you
I love your comments! The story was based on receiving the gifts to the earth for the tribe each year and they would stamp the energy in for the earth to thrive for the year - but had to appease the sun god with a sacrifice. Who would dance herself to death for him in the last 5 minutes of the ballet. Wild
Ok, never been into ballet nor been willing to watch any on tv, but after watching this It just "STUNNED" me, really !! Amazing !!
Had to watch "riot at the rite" the tv movie version right after, couldn't get enough of it.
lol I remember having to play the famous bassoon solo at the very beginning for a college audition
did you make it in, the solo is rather impressive
He's been blowing Stravinsky ever since.
I've watched this performance several times now and each time I am overwhelmed by how powerful and beautiful this piece really is. Thank you again for sharing.
3:00 Parisian ticket holders in 1913:
Aight, imma storm the stage.
yes!
I had to pin this,
This is my favorite ballet!!!!
Dark Static I feel that it is the Hallmark of creative ballet or creativity in performance even! I'm so happy to see that you feel the same way
mom : go play with the neighbor's kids
the neighbor's kids:
lmaooooo what
Jimmy two times
I like to listen to this to help me calm me down. Not lying.
I like you.
Odd choice of music, but whatever works.
@@victorhernandez8723agreed though" Spring Rounds" is one of the loveliest moments in the Rite... Sort of like the pas de deux from scenes de ballet?
How many of y’all watching for homework?
Oh yes how yes you guys are back! Every year the composition students are sent here to watch the ballet so that they can really get the full impact of what was happening that night and I have 10000 followers that are mostly music students and we have so much fun talking about this. So tell me what you you think about it
@@fatovamingus that's hilarious! am not a student. but this piece comes into my consciousness every couple years. I can never get into the actual ballet though. it makes me feel too ...weird- and detracts from my enjoyment of the piece (i'm aware this was originally written precisely for the ballet)
me 😔
Thank you Fatova...! We went the other night to the Joffrey's LA Rite at the Dorothy Chandler... it was awesome! My fiancee dances, so it was a real treat to see it live.
i feel awful that I missed this comment!!!
I saw this in Vienna in 1987, almost by accident, and I'm so happy to be able to relive it here
I love this comment. I love it. Can you tell me more>
@@fatovamingus I was visiting my soon to be wife, who was on a scholarship in Vienna. I recall that it was March?, and we were looking for cultural things around the city, which as you may know, is a very easy task. I was a budding ballet fan, but didn't have in depth knowledge. We bought student rush tickets for the equivalent of 5 dollars, and sat almost at the top of the theater, but dead center. Though so many years ago, I recall the racing in my heart, and the tingling in my brain, seeing the primitivity of the movement and the pounding music.
Fantastic Stravinsky and magical dancing,such colour.
this scares me so much idk why
Because it's scary! This was the libretto :ancient Pagan Russia asking a sun god to rain energy to the Earth which they stomp into it so the crops will grow but of course you know how it is with sun gods - they want a virgin. So it's like the whole thing is working up to the very end : who's going to die! By jumping herself to death of 143 leaps in less than 5 minutes. But listen to the music I mean what the hell else could be done it had to be radical. Thank you for commenting please come back
My God! How tragic it would have been to have lost this singular work forever! If it continues to shock us in 2012, can one imagine its impact in 1913? I'd like to think that had I been there, I would have been on my feet shouting 'bravo' and 'brilliant' when it concluded, and not one of the lemmings running out in dismay and disgust!
I saw a revival of this a few years ago in Chicago by the Joffrey and it was mesmerizing to see in person. I believe the costumes and dancing were recreations of the original ROS that was based on a research for a doctoral thesis many years earlier. Amazingly, there exists quite a lot of detailed information from various sources about the actual performance and reviews in the papers, in addition to notes and sketches from Stravinsky himself and other contemporaries.
There are a lot of different stories if Robert Kraft is doing any of the talking you should disregard it. I personally like this one because it's full of facts the real people it's kind of entertaining and I made it. It also gets into great wild detail of how dr. Kenneth Archer counted every Circle and square on the costumes to make sure they were accurate I mean who does that?
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I feel like I missed so many comments. Because there was a second version of this ballet created after Nijinsky was booted because he stopped having sex with Diaghilev, there were two set designs two separate costumes and Dr Kenneth Archer spent 10 years counting circles and squares on these costumes to make sure he got it right. I can't think of anything more tedious than that but thank God somebody found it valuable.
Thank you for posting this. Need to watch this a few more times as l find the choreography very interesting and full of emotions.
My music teacher showed up this and it's so cool
IK am SO happy to hear it. Remember this is only one of 3 pieces...I uploaded back when 10 minutes increments was all you could do!~
thank you so much for this clear picture version! I've never seen it with this clarity, even in the DVD and old VHS version that I had. great to see the costumes and movements with such clarity.
I bet Stravinsky and Nijinsky would be amused (and a little sad) that even over 100 years later some people can't except this. If you don't like the music and dance, fair enough, it would be a boring world if we all liked the same. But Nijinsky's choreography (over a more "traditional" one) is awesome and flows with the music brilliantly. So glad the Joffrey went through the effort.
Exactly. THis was an event: the music, the libretto, Nijinsky's schizophrenia just breaking, right before WWI...this more than a breakthrough moment in music/dance. It was a marker in time.
It makes you wonder how Nijinsky might have choreographed a piece by Zappa.
If you listen to early Mothers like "Burnt Weenie Sandwich" (which has a song called "Igor's Boogie" btw) you can hear the influence Stravinsky had on Zappa. By the time Hot Rats came out though it wasn't that great.
Like this. This is all Stravinsky: th-cam.com/video/XEQdJfxH62g/w-d-xo.html
Yes, great album. Although it was released around the same time as Hot Rats (just a few months after); which makes it interesting that you can hear Stravinsky in one but not much in the other. But then that's Zappa. He wrote/played what felt right to him at any particular time and some influences were more predominant as a result. Never static.
It’s soo eerie and that’s why I love it
it is very dark. the libretto is really horrific. i still can not believe Nijinsky, Stravinsky and Roerich created this.
I was shocked but still excited when I first watched this in junior high.
It is just epic and there is no way to see this without remembering it
Why did you watch this in junior high, just curious
@@fatovamingus music class
This is fantastic. I thought I'll never see a version like this; so raw, atractive and harsh. thanks for the upload!
Costumes, makeup, choreography, music, ballet storyline all FANTASTIQUE!
It is, You are so right. Dr. Archer was relentless in the pursuit of Roerich's sets and costumes. There is a short video about it on my channel,,,
Ok I just watched it. And I loved it. This is coming from a person who had never been fond of ballet. I'm turned off by all of the frou frou costumes, and graceful movements. I usually wanna fall asleep 30 minutes into it. But this opening scene caught my attention right away. i know im over simplifing ballet but remember, im not expert in this genre. so what do i know. imho.
Shauna Tate 二人とも美人だね‼️元気かな⁉️Ravishing and luscious！ vigorous？
The music never fails to make me feel shitty and paranoid, which is impressive but also freaky
I sent that comment to Marie Stravinsky that's awesome
Thank you! I saw this production at the Kennedy Center 25 years ago. Brings back fond memories.
This is the first time in Music History, Igor Stravinsky had used his expressionism to challenge artistic conventions and public tastes.
Going back over what comments TH-cam DIDN'T delete I find yours. This is like a sampler of 8 different symphonies. Act One is dizzying. Stravinsky was born to change the world.
Thanks for posting this clearer version
I'm here because last night my dance school did their version of Rite of Spring and I was in it :). It was so cool
Silvermoon Therian that is great to hear! How do you feel seeing this, the original?
Fatova Mingus the costumes and makeup are definitely different than the one I did and so was the dance in some parts
Maybe you will post us a photo??
this is one of this things that's just so unsettling, but so beautiful at the same time.
I first came across this three-ish years ago, i was a senior in high school and for our marching band show our composer incorporated a bit of the music from this into the score.
our directors encouraged us to listen to the actual piece, so i did. and i was confused out of my damn mind. but I loved it. I didn't understand it then, I still don't really understand it now, but I dont care.
listening to this brings me so much happiness, I remember listening to this with my friends at lunch during band rehearsals and looking up what it all meant and playing it on bus rides to marching competitions to get ourselves in the zone. i know it probably sounds a little dumb lmao but honestly it brings back really happy and funny memories. thanks for posting.
This is one of the happiest comments I've ever seen I'm so glad you wrote. I hope the ballet lived up to it I think the ritual Act of the ancestors in Act 2 is the most explosive moment!!
it's one of the greatest and most influential ballets every written, and as a music student I can tell you that we LOVE Stravinsky. Not to mention it's more than a hundred years old.
it's suppose to be weird :)
Absolutely incredible. Every other version of this ballet is inferior to me.
Yes! This was the first performance in 70 years.... They had nothing to go by no video just their own raw emotion and commitment to the story and you can see it! I love your comment!
@@fatovamingus indeed, i sometimes accidentally watch Macmillan's god awful version then i watch this again to cleanse my pallet.
@@hk6970 one of the women that danced The Chosen One in this masterpiece- her name is Zenaida Zanowsky - she chose to do that MacMillan shit show for her retirement.
@@fatovamingus No way, how could she be so tasteless? If I were a ballerina and performed the MacMillan Ballet, I would have hide it like a sin lol. I mean there are many unoriginal bland versions of Rite of Spring out there, but the MacMillan takes the cake for the ugliest one. (At least of all the ones I have seen) All this versions prove Nijinsky was truly a visionary and can't be topped even after all this years imo.
@@hk6970 we need to have a drink and talk smack about all of this someday
Still startling after 100 years; like seeing a great wave advancing, terrible and beautiful. Stravinsky said that the Sacre "passed through him" rather than arose through through the effort of composing. I imagine this is technique and idea enjoying each other's company in the the most pure and creative form. A thing of itself; forever new.
This was the example my music theory 2 teacher showed us as an example of discordant harmony.
I was lucky to find it. I am looking for a video of the Paris Opera Ballet from the early 90's with Marie-Claude Pietragalla dancing the Chose One role. I think it may be impossible.
I knew this music sounded to familiar I’m now remeber if that it’s the dinosaurs from Fantasia but I’m low key in love w/this
just saw it tonight, worth every penny !
A Masterpiece 🤍🤍🥰😍
Happy 100th Anniversary, you big beautiful beast of a ballet.
Two set : 3:00
Came Here Cuz of them hahaha
Guys thank you because I don't know about these things and I can't share it with the dancers to see how they react. Keep coming back I need to learn things! And ask me any question
I had to check out two set and post it on Facebook to see what the Stravinsky's and choreographers and former dancers.
@@fatovamingus watch TwoSetViolin Where they Did some of the dances in Public😂
Their Video title is "When Rite of Spring takes over you"
When I was reading a Wikipedia entry on Stravinky, I came upon the section talking about th riot that broke out during his performance debut. When I was able to find out what piece it was, I thought to myself "I MUST find a live performance of Stravinky that literally caused a RIOT". I honestly assumed I wouldn't be able to find a copy online. Luckily , people like you care enough to post this online for posterity. Thanks.
Clearly an inspiration for many current Eurovision Song contest acts.
I do not understand why the music from when the curtain opens is not used more often it's not even sampled!
I don’t know anything about Eurovision. But the nervous tics during the Augurs of Spring seem very reminiscent of the movements of a certain president who likes green shirts after he partakes in specific white powders.
@@brospore7897 If I would know which president you mean...certainly not Zelenski I see him allways in brownish shirts.
@wicked4ever62442 Thank you, wicked4ever, for clearing that up for me. I'm glad I found this; I was a bit confused over which was the original choregraphy for the play when I saw one of the videos in the recommendations column (that other video was hedonism and pelvic thrusts -excuse my redundancy, heheh). This one video was something I truly haven't seen. I'm amazed no one fell.
I can see why this would cause a riot
Couple of years ago this kid commented that they need to do a reconstruction on the riot. Which would really be more of a comedy if you think about it
The 100th anniversary is soon upon us, May 29th 1913 of the premiere of this wonderful and extraordinary ballet. I hope some ballet company is going to perform this ballet for that special day.
The Rite of Spring is one of the greatest compositions ever made. It will probably trascend humanity.
th-cam.com/video/8pCCujH2x3w/w-d-xo.html. I threw this together a while back but it's full of Stravinsky's explanation of how he was a vessel that received this music because nothing had been written that could guide him. It's it actually gives you goosebumps it's that good
@@fatovamingus Fasciinating, thanks for sharing. I'll make sure to check it out.
This is still my favorite ballet, magnificent score by Stravinsky. Ninety-ninth anniversary of its premier May 29. Watching it perhaps for the fiftieth time, been familiar the score for at least fifty years.
I commented this on a different video, and for posterity, I will comment it here too. I still see dinosaurs. This was always my favorite part of Fantasia.
Ok guess what...I never saw Fantasia. I think maybe there was some acid involved with my 15 year old friends?
Still haven't seen it
Hey, what a wonderful discovery ! Many thanks !
As music and dance critic of The Milwaukee Journal, I attended the scholarly conference on the Rite reconstruction in Chicago -- I believe it was in the fall of 1987 -- the Joffrey Ballet's home. About 15 years of research went into the reconstruction of Nijinsky's 1913 ballet.
They had the design drawings for the sets and costumes and reproduced them to the last details. They had the notebooks of Marie Rambert, who was Nijinsky's assistant during the creation of the work. I believe they had other idiosyncratic dance notations of the work at hand, as well as written accounts of Paris and London performances, along with dancer recollections. Lots of interviews were involved.
The Chicago premiere was an electric event. The program included Bronislava Nijinska's "Les Noces," another "primitivist" ballet based on Russian folkways. (I like "Rite" a lot, but I think "Les Noces" -- "The Wedding" -- is the better dance.)
And now, just in case other posters care to know what they're talking about, here's Jack Smith's informational advance story on The Joffrey's performance in New York, 1987: www.nytimes.com/1987/10/25/arts/the-joffrey-ballet-restores-nijinsky-s-rite-of-spring.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BE0.mYt6._MXMsv5Eqbvh&smid=url-share
Thank you. You got nearly all of it right. Were Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer not as intent on recovering this ballet before its champion Robert Joffrey passed away, we would have to suffer the awful existing choreographies forever. They are too humble and magnanimous to agree with me on that and would likely give me a soft lecture. They say never meet your heroes but I disagree.
@@fatovamingus As you know, Stravinsky's music has been catnip for many choreographers. That will continue to be the case. I like Pina Bausch's take on it. Saw it in L.A. in 1984. th-cam.com/video/z3vZeAmcjf4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5HeJMLc0Qjx-OHbm
@@tstrini1 I changed my notices on comments because I NEVER saw this! Am I a prude to dislike choreographies to this masterpiece that show tits or full nudity and nearly always a sexualization of the Glorification? I imagine that Stravinsky would not have liked it. It's pedestrian to me. So you have seen the "Four Variants" which is Nijinsky, Preljocaj, Bausch and Tero Saarinen... HE KILLED. Have you seen it? It is called Hunt and he did something pretty breakthrough at that time and I am so interested in knowing if you like it: he used a multimedia experiment where he is moving very little in places and light and imagery are projected on to him! The only other I like is from Heddy Maalem *Spring Rounds* th-cam.com/video/JE3iQNP8lNQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=57vduts5yyN_ZYYb
Please write - I would like to ask a question of two and see if you would write something for the ballet archive. thisisfatova at gmail
You are a ridiculously fortunate person
@@johnmanno2052 True.
saw this performance live at the Kennedy Center back in 1987, just stunning!
This looks like a cartoon... makes theory homework bearable for long periods now. 😅
Great job on this
Theory students were not being forced to watch this until 2012-ish. And you can see in the early comments how freaked out it made them. I love you guys
Yes, I agree with you. Thanks for a thoughtful and sensitive response!
The fact that Stravinsky died only 16 years before this is wild.
I apologize for the delay TH-cam has an issue with me and I never get my notifications. And I want you to know it took me almost 16 years to figure out what you meant with this comment. I had to get out my Abacus and figure it out but now I get it and it is something isn't it
So dramatic yet beautiful.
even today, even after 15 years work to recover a masterpiece like this lost for 70 years, people still find it ugly. I think without the backstory it is hard. Where is the beauty for you? 4:56 is where it happens for me in this part (this is one of 3).
Might I just give a shout-out to the absolutely incredible costuming and face-painting work that just adds so much to creating this scene? I've always loved the music, and the choreography is great of course, but the costumes do more to set the scene than anything else.
I think Mr. Archer would concur and google it. You'll find that Hodson and Archer excavated this right down to the last braid.
Please don't say shout out ever. It's
a phrase for dipshits.
unbelievable amount of work here