Roundtable
Eye on Dance: Excavating the Rite of Spring Thursday, April 12 6:30 PM Film and discussion When the Ballets Russes premiered The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps) with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky to Stravinsky's new score in Paris in May, 1913, the theater erupted in a riot. The dancers could not count the music, the musicians did not consider it music, and the movements did not resemble classical ballet. The birth of Modernism! Many years later an historian labeled this performance a warning of a century to come in which the world sacrificed its best people searching for peace. The Joffrey Ballet performed Rite in 1987. Celia Ipiotis, creator with Jeff Bush of a then new television series, Eye on Dance, named one of America's irreplaceable dance treasures, interviewed Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer, who were responsible for the reconstruction. Ipiotis will show the program and interview two former Joffrey dancers who worked with the material. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. MUST RSVP: [email protected]