The show features three distinct ballets: the classical "Concerto Mondrian," the neoclassical "Miroirs," and the contemporary ...
Pierre Monteux, who led the scandalous premiere of “The Rite of Spring,” went on to a career of remarkable peace and ...
Following its compelling opening Masterworks Series concerts last month, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra embraces an ...
In 1912, a new ballet called L’Apres-midi d’un Faune, or Afternoon of a Faun, was launched in Paris. It was a 12-minute work by the young and troubled Russian dancer/choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky that ...
In a rehearsal studio lined by floor-to-ceiling mirrors in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Anique Ayiboe is hunched in on herself, a ball of nerves. Tonight, the 33-year-old Togolese member of the ...
Spring, 1917. World War I ground grimly on. All the same, the famed impresario of the Ballet Russe, Sergei Diaghilev, commissioned a young poet, Jean Cocteau, to conceive a new ballet. At the time ...
Some performances stay with you long after the curtain closes, when movement and dance become a vessel for truth-telling. “A Mother’s Rite,” choreographed by Emmy award-winning artist Jeremy McQueen ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Under the baton of VSO's Music Director and Conductor Salvador Brotons, the ...
If there was an overarching theme to the astonishing triple bill in Ballet West’s production that culminated in the riveting performance of The Rite of Spring, it would be contemplation, continuity ...
The facts about the revolutionary character of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring are well known. Capitalizing upon the triumphs of The Firebird (1910) and Petrushka (1911), Sergei Diaghilev ...
The national touring production of the Broadway play “Life of Pi” arrives at the Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, Tuesday through Sunday. The play is based on Yann Martel’s acclaimed ...