The return of the ballet masterpiece that caused a riot - IN FOCUS: When Pina Bausch premiered her 1975 version of Stravinsky’s controversial ‘The Rite of Spring’ in Germany, audiences were so angry ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Third in a string of collaborations between composer Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, The Rite of Spring draws from tribal ceremonies and Russian folk music to illustrate the ...

In a rehearsal studio lined by floor-to-ceiling mirrors in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Anique Ayiboe is hunched in on herself, a ball of nerves. Tonight, the 33-year-old Togolese member of the ...