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* - partial use of score.
† - musical collage.
| Premiere
Year |
1959 |
| Dance |
Le Sacre du printemps |
| Choreographer |
Maurice Béjart |
b. 1927 |
| Music |
The Rite of Spring |
1911-13; rev 1947 |
First
Performance: 29 May 1913, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris |
| Pictures from pagan Russia in two parts |
Length
of score: 33' |
| Text: |
| Scenario |
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| Design |
Pierre Caille |
| Company |
Ballet-Théâtre de Paris |
| First
Performance |
08 December 1959 |
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium |
| Conductor |
André Vandernoot |
| Principal
Dancers |
Tania Bari (Chosen Girl), Germinal Casado (Chosen Boy) |
| Note |
For large ensemble, the enactment of a fertility ritual which celebrates the sexual union of a chosen woman with a chosen man. The movement style is African-influenced modern, with classical elements, and reflects a universal concept of erotic 'primitivism'. Part 1 danced by the men, Part 2 by the women and then combined ensemble. The work has become established in the international repertory and it initiated a tradition of orgiastic, minimally-clothed Sacres. |
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