Joffrey Ballet 1987 Rite of Spring (1 of 3)

this is only one of 3 parts Begin at minute 2:42 if you wish to jump right in to the dance. Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky collaborated by chance with Nicholas Roerich and May 29, 1913 debuted most shocking, ground breaking composition and ballet the world had ever experienced and it may still be most striking work ever done. Paris was not ready for this 3 prong attack and only Igor Stravinsky would have the victory - though not financial, never that. Nijinsky’s choreography, performed only 9 times in 1913, was the effigy and was nearly lost forever until Robert Joffrey, once a student of Nijinsky’s assistant Marie Rambert, decided to unearth it in the 1980’s. Into the rabbit hole he went with dance historian and choreographer Millicent Hodson and Dr. Kenneth Archer, the foremost authority on the authenticity of costume, set design and ritual patter. As Robert Joffrey’s cancer advanced so did the reconstruction as if Nijinsky had run to Joffrey’s timeline, It took 10