Updated: 5:58 p.m. Saturday, March 2, 2013 | Posted: 5:58 p.m. Saturday, March 2, 2013
JEANNE CLAIRE VAN RYZIN / SEEING THINGS
Van Ryzin: Joffrey brings original ‘Rite of Spring’ back to life
By Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
American-Statesman Staff
“The Rite of Spring” caused a riot when it premiered in 1913 at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
The audience erupted in raucous shouts when the dancers of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo — poised pigeon-toed, torsos hunched, elbows bent in the opposite of classical position — began stomping flat-footed to Stravinsky’s wild rhythms.
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