In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

A strange, bewitching ceremony took place this weekend at Zellerbach Hall. 17 stagehands marched onstage at the show’s intermission, ripped up the gray Marley floor, unfurled a massive dusty black ...

The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...

Chinese dance legend and renowned choreographer Yang Liping brings her stunning reimagining of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to Stanford Live in its U.S premiere. A product of her native Chinese culture ...

For dancer Anique Ayiboe, entering the world of “The Rite of Spring” has been a journey of discovery. The Togolese dancer, who has been traveling and performing with the renowned Pina Bausch ...

As a child in Cape Town, South Africa, Sonia Zandile Constable was expected to find a “serious” career in academics or medicine. That may have happened, except for a fateful tea break her teacher took ...

The DSO's Brahms and Bruckner were linked only by proximity of premieres, but Stravinsky studied with the older Russian composer, and learned a lot of orchestral tricks from him. They're quite obvious ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – While the mysterious life forces of nature were busy choreographing an early outburst of vernal colors outside Severance Music Center on Thursday evening, guest conductor Klaus ...

This staging, a collaboration between Opera North and Leeds’s Phoenix Dance Theatre, marks the UK debut of Haitian born choreographer Jeanguy Saintus. He deploys all eight company dancers in a buoyant ...

In 1984, at the age of 90, Martha Graham choreographed to Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” In 1984, at the age of 90, Martha Graham took on the enormous task of choreographing to Igor Stravinsky’s ...