Rite of Spring
Ballet that rioted
Rite of Spring refers to Igor Stravinsky's 1913 ballet score, notorious for provoking a riot at its Paris premiere.
The music's dissonant harmonies and violent rhythms depicting pagan ritual sacrifice revolutionized classical composition.
The phrase sometimes appears generically for any work that scandalizes audiences before gaining acceptance: Her debut novel was a rite of spring for the literary establishment.
- Ballets RussesPioneering twentieth-century dance company
- balletClassical dance on pointe
- modern danceExpressive staged choreography
- primaveraSauce of young vegetables
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
Stravinsky · pagan · dance · Nijinsky · dissonance · riot · opening night · premiere · Paris · 1913 · bassoon · orchestra · choreography · fertility · maiden · chosen one · tribe · drums
- classical musicBach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms
- MasterpiecesMona Lisa, Last Supper, Starry Night, The Scream, David
- Stage Danceballet, choreography, dance number, dance routine, dance solo
- Russian CultureBolshoi, matryoshka, Kremlin, Hermitage, balalaika
- BalletsSwan Lake, The Nutcracker, Nutcracker, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty
- Modern ClassicalStravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartok, Shostakovich, Prokofiev
Rite of SpringSwan Lake
Romantic Russian ballet
Sleeping Beauty · The Nutcracker · Brandenburg Concertos · Moonlight Sonata · classical elegance
Rite of SpringSwan Lake
Romantic Russian ballet
Giselle · courtly dance · minuet · waltz · refined elegance
rite, rites, ritual, rituals, ritualistic, ritually, spring, springs, sprung