The Joffrey’s reconstructed”Rite of Spring” (photo by Herbert Migdoll) 100 years ago today, the Ballets Russes premiered Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, in Paris. It caused a riot. No—literally. The audience just didn’t know what to make of the work, which was dissonant and rough and not at all like […]
American Ballet Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet principal David Hallberg has been a pretty major ballet star for a pretty long time now. But he’s also becoming a bona fide star of the fashion world. Not that that’s a surprise, really: Hallberg is a beautiful guy, in addition to being a beautiful dancer, and seems to […]
2013 marks a big dance world anniversary: The Ballets Russes premiered Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, 100 years ago. And if you think ballet isn’t exciting, think again: The work was so controversial it actually caused a riot to break out in the theater on its opening night. Seriously—a […]