How many times can you tell a good story? It depends on the teller, but that tends to suggest that the more a story is told the further it retreats from reality. Somebody once said that if everyone ...

Stravinsky’s ballet sensation of 1913 shocked its first Paris audience. More than 150 versions later, the far-reaching pull of this modernist masterpiece remains irresistible… For a work that changed ...

It’s 100 years since Stravinsky’s seminal The Rite of Spring was infamously premiered by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes to the tune of audience rioting. As expected, 2013 see a number of ...

A jammed front curtain sabotaged Act II of the Kirov Ballet's first London Rite of Spring. Chaos ensued: stage tabs down, music halted, house lights on, a long pause, the music eventually starting ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s easy to believe that we know everything there is to know about The Rite of Spring. Vaslav Nijinsky’s epoch ...

It was probably the most cataclysmic moment in the history of music. On 29 May 1913, the curtain rose at Paris's Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on the new ballet Le sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) ...

Pina Bausch's elemental work finally makes it to Sadler's Wells – and it is worth the wait Mark Monahan never really stood a chance. In the Sixties, his mother danced for five years with what was then ...

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Scottish Ballet’s intense and visceral production, choreographed by Christopher Hampson, set to Stravinsky’s exhilarating score, performed by the full Scottish Ballet Orchestra. Show more Intense and ...