If you were really somebody in Paris at the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps" ("The Rite of Spring"), you weren't just in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. You were in the car ...

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 ...

One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...

The anarchic energy and haunting melodies of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” have fascinated generations of dancers and choreographers since the ballet’s première, for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets ...

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 ...

Apr. 15—Russian dance music will soar across the stage of Popejoy Hall on Saturday, April 20. The New Mexico Philharmonic will celebrate the ballets of Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky, with a ...

Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.

In Terrence McNally’s Fire and Air, the Russian ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev says, “I invented the 20th century.” He’s not far off. Diaghilev’s Paris-based Ballets Russes was central to the ...