Today, Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" is premiered in Paris. The ballet is choreographed by Vaslav Nijinski. The story concerns itself with Russia's distant pagan past. A young girl is chosen to be a sacrificial offering and dances herself to death. The score introduces many unsettling innovations in atonality and dissonance to the ballet going public. It closes to mixed reviews, but it points the way to the future of music, even if the public is not yet ready to accept it.
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| Dancers from the Original Production |
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