Boggle your rite brain: Video of Joffrey dancing Nijinsky's 1913 'Rites of Spring' in 1987
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The Rite of Spring Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. Chicago's Joffrey Ballet in 1987 recreated Nijinsky's original 1913 choreography of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps, which occasioned a riot at its Paris premiere. (Yes, there used to be classical music riots.) The video above jumps right into the action, skipping the 164 seconds of credits.
In... 1987, the Joffrey Ballet received a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant in Dance of $243,400 "to support three self-produced seasons in New York City and Los Angeles, and the reconstruction of Vaslav Nijinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps." The reconstruction was the culmination of more than 15 years of work by Millicent Hodson, a choreographer and dance historian, and her husband Kenneth Archer, an art historian. Hodson and Archer had painstakingly pieced the ballet together from prompt books, contemporary sketches, paintings, photographs, reviews, the original costume designs, annotated scores, and interviews with eye witnesses, such as Dame Marie Rambert, Nijinsky's assistant. The Joffrey Ballet Restores Nijinsky's 'Rite Of Spring'. Jack Anderson, NYT, Oct. 25, 1987. Is it possible to reconstruct a forgotten ballet? New Yorker, 2001.
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