The rebel Marie Chouinard, prized and internationally in-demand Canadian choreographer, explores the poetry of the body in spontaneously clear and constantly surprising ways. Each new work is a ...

When it premiered in Paris in 1913, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, with choreography by Vaslav Nijinksy, was greeted with the vocal equivalent of rotten tomatoes. “The people were so upset by ...

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 ...

Running and leaping on a hard floor is one thing, but Bausch requires it to happen on a thick carpet of soft, crumbly peat. It takes 10 stagehands a full 30 minutes to cover the Sadler’s stage with ...

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 ...

Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022. On May 2 and May 3 the venerated ASO music director laureate conducted a ...

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 ...