Premiere Performance Part2 A

[whatevernice345]

Love it!!

[meowkie]

I love watching the choreographer desperately shouting the steps to the dancers. Something about that is really epic. :3

[C0NTR4B455]

'He's drawing a chicken....' 'Why?' 'I don't know'...Great dialogue..

[Sheffield6688]

To ask the BBC to release this on DVD, go to the bbcamericashop site (I don't think YouTube will allow me to use the actual address), then click on "DVD" tab upper left, go down about 3/4 of the way on the next page that comes up to "Suggest a Title" and tell them you want the 2005 documentary "Riot at the Rite" released on DVD.

[biotonk]

Very well done film.

[deeaaath]

french people are so dumb

[harrietamidala1691]

isn't this part one of act II? I'm confused... The title of the video say that is part 2 A, but description says that it's the second half.

[KuRoKisU]

It's the second half, the first half is of the guys playing sticks with an old lady.

[xpersonx]

The yelling is so frustrating lol

However this vid helped me understand one more thing about the dance choreography - she falls because she's trying to avoid sacrifice right?

[musicalme22]

i think she just fell because she fell lol

but that's what causes her to be chosen so they must have been waiting for someone to fall

[xpersonx]

Oh yea that is possible :D

[KuRoKisU]

She fell because the god's were choosing her to be sacrificed.

[ArtIsBoring]

While I understand that they were trying to make a historically accurate presentation of the first showing, I can't help but wish the audience would shut up--I want to see the original choreography, dammit!

[DiesIrae676]

click on my name, I have added a series of favorites they are an excellent version of the Ballet with out the audience. and the original choreography

[ArtIsBoring]

Awesome! Thanks!

[jericho210]

AH!! This is getting more and more interesting!!!

[chubblove]

one place in time i would love to have been is at this concert.

[lemmingguy1]

SICK!!

[senator200]

Wonderful !

[gudesuppes]

i heard this music the very first time at the age of 13,

and i am still fascinated. gurrelieder from a. schoenberg

and herzog blaubarts burg from bartok are amazing too...

[nightwisper]

I read somewhere that Nijinsky had done the choreography of Stravinskys 3th balletr and also was the main figure in it , ... He jumped a very magnificent " jump " somewhere at the end of the ballet =)( I love the falling down also ;) )

[ronneesam]

The flower petals enfolding the central stamen(?) then falling away is such a powerful image of spring/birth/death. Nijinsky had such vision, knowledge and experience of ballet and ok life - how many of us hetros know about homosexuality or bi-sexuality? Or, in my case, hetrosexuality come to that?

[nightwisper]

I'm looking for people who like to talk about this pieces =) , its my favourite of all pieces ever made ... to bad that i cant find the whole film anywhere

[ronneesam]

It was a BBC production for tv. I too have searched for a version of the ballet on video/dvd but to no avail. Any amount of music only versions but that misses the point. If the original ballet was like this it should be available for all.

[chzeball22]

there is a documentary about the rite of spring-- millicent hodson spent years researching and reconstructing the ballet on the joffrey ballet. its a great documentary for anyone interested. also, dozens of choreographers have created their own interpretations of the ballet

[tolitz11]

le sacre du primtemps is one of a kind. a ballet music that it is too striking for the ears of a conservative one.

i hope that there are other recording for the rite of spring (especially the original one)

[anders59]

Agreed. :) It's this kind of music that blows the mind.

There are many notable recordings of this amazing composition, and they include:

-Pierre Monteux conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, RCA, recorded 1951 (mono)

-Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic, Sony, recorded 1958

-Igor Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Sony, recorded 1960

-Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, Sony, recorded 1969

[crowe]

more importantly Duchamp was there!

[theiveslikeus]

so Picasso was really in the audience for the premiere, amazing!

[dougfreshinite]

actually...it was Nicolas Roerich that designed it, not Picasso

[nfamiliar]

yeah, picasso was there.. he designed the set..