Ballet Music 2.
Here is a reconstruction of Stravinski’s Rite of Spring, as originally staged in
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These people were the first to perform this original Nijinsky ballet (also known as Le Sacre du Printemps) after its being lost for 70 years. Some of it was found in the margins of Stravinsky's original score. They pieced it together and had to fly blind in places.
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Part 3 of 3, the Danse Sacral. The "Chosen One", here played by Beatriz Rodriguez, dances herself to death so that spring will return. Rodriguez was the first to dance this part as it was originally choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky to Igor Stravinsky's masterpiece since 1913.
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To learn some more about the composer, Stravinsky, I include this documentary, made in 1966 49min.28secs.