- Le Sacre du Printemps - (1970) Partie 4 (fin)

[juspasenthru]

Jajaja doofda boofenunt das keinliedoktor gundegedrechenschtule ja?

[broadwaymelody33]

So...what's the interpretation here?

[Saiaton]

This is so much better than the reconstructed Nijinsky choreography with a feel of dated self-conscious 're-enactment' about it. It would be nice to know what Stravinsky thought of it. Sex, death = opposite faces of the same coin of Life. I like the way they can use classical forms in a 'barbaric' way that probably Nijinsky could not to make a break from tradition. Years after the break it's possible to re-introduce classical smoothness without losing the strength.

[whoamicrap]

clearly a mating ritual, not a sacrifice :P

i still like the original better, but they're as good as each other

[iamlovedbysomeone]

Looks like The Rite of Spring has a whole new meaning here. So much for the virgin sacrifice, eh? lol There won't be any of that, it looks like, in this version of the ballet!!!

[romanandora]

Video bellissimo, coreografia fantastica! Audio - - -! Grazie!

[Tegan166]

Super! Merci pour cette vidéo complet, c'est merveilleux!

[jmarquar]

why is this a half step too high????

[Evilthings]

@jmarquar Probably has something to do with the fact that it's an old recording.

[FuckCommunism1]

Except for the visual effects, anything beautiful in the music???

[mightyzebra]

Certainly different from the original ballet!! Pretty good, but VERY strange, even stranger than the Joffrey Ballet version. Good work, dancers. :)

[vedernikovserge]

LIKE THX

[mkaolsenlover]

Wonderful (l)

[dancemylife09]

which company is dancing in this video? can anyone tell me that/?

[CubicalGirl]

this is completely random but was just wondering....do male ballerina dancers have to wear cups? You know like how male athletes do in other sports

[Schell77]

@CubicalGirl Traditionally they wear dancing belts, which are like athletic supporters but with a single strap going right up the back (dancers with a physique like this are into shape!), and enhanced pelvis support in the front.

[ggbxl]

merveilleuse tania

[TheMissBordO]

Incroyable en 70 ! 59 !?!

[Lightandgold]

This is an exceptionally inaccurate portrayal of the confirmed (by Stravinsky's own personal letters) subject matter of the piece.

[1chob0d]

i wathched the original dance then hit this and what a very different feeling.but this may be due to the times (70's) i prfer the original virginal death dance to this but still great movement

[balletnut]

vcrisfi, how do you KNOW that Stravinsky wrote this work with the idea of a sacrificial victim in his mind? Were you lucky enough to know Stravinsky?

I love your dinosaur idea!!

I agree that everyone is entitled to their opinion, like here,but why foist it on us? Why not call this delightful piece of ballet something else to do with sex which would be far more suitable?

Does this letter make sense to you? It seems a bit muddled up to me.

[vcrisfi]

@balletnut About the sacrificial victim idea: I read that in a couple of places, so I'm taking it to be true.

[maskerade123]

@balletnut Isnt it noted that he had a vision during the conception of the Firebird that he saw a group of village elders surrounding a girl as she danced herself to death to appease the Spring? Just recalling etc

[balletnut]

Thank you for replying so fast, vcrisfi. Surely, Stravinsky was concentrating on sacrifice, NOT sex (and I'm not a prude!!).

I wish Stravinsky was still alive so that I could ask him! (Is that being morbid?)

[vcrisfi]

@balletnut

Haha, no, that's not morbid. I think you're right in your interpretation. Apparently the idea of a sacrificial victim dancing herself to death is what originally inspired Stravinsky to write this piece. So I think you're right about sacrifice being the central theme of the ballet.

Of course people are free to reinterpret, as this choreographer has. But if you're going to argue that The Rite is all about sex, I think it's fair to say that it's also all about dinosaurs. :)

[Jayjen35]

@balletnut I don't know. I think that the fact that it is called "The Rite of Spring" alludes to some involvement with sexuality. As well as the fact that it is noted that a virgin is the sacrifice. Not a "maiden" or "young girl", but "virgin".

I think that most or at least many pagan rites involving spring had/have to do with fertility and mating rituals. So, I kinda believe that both versions have to do with sex. One overtly, and one symbolically.

[nostoi68]

sempre bellissimo!

[saudinamber]

Stranevsky human genius .. Very ingenious addition to Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, but Stranevsky is credited with the great music of Eastern European

[knick17]

I've heard and seen this ballet literally hundreds of times. Yet this video moved me to tears.

[balletnut]

I thought this ballet was about sacrifice and not sex. Isn't the sacrificial girl SUPPOSED to be a virgin? I don't think this dancer knew the meaning of the word!!

However, in spite of all that, I thought this was wonderful, although I think I prefer Nijinsky's.

[vcrisfi]

@balletnut

That was my thought too. I'd always thought that The Rite of Spring was about sex rites, until I watched Joffrey's reconstructed choreography and read the song titles. Neither has any overt reference to sexuality. I wonder if Stravinsky intended the piece to contain sexual themes but was not overt about it, or whether that whole interpretation has been a more recent "addition" to the ballet.

I also prefer Nijinsky's version.

[redsongia]

At 6:46 I finally realized why the Star Trek soundtrack from the Shatner days always sounded familiar to me.

[7Kalixto]

Cette oeuvre est vraiment très bien. Comment les français ont pu dire que ce n'était pas de la musique.... De plus La chorégraphie de Bejart est super. Je ne peux plus me passer de cette oeuvre. Elle est extraordinaire.

[meowkie]

I have a phobia of the Rite of Spring, and it STILL fascinates me. I can't listen to it with the sound on, but I only wish I had the courage. This is amazing. Positively beautiful. So creative and full of life and eeriness....

ARGH CURSE ME AND MY PATHETIC FEARS. :( Wonderful performance. I can't wait to hear it with sound one day.

[DerKollector]

That's a most unique fear, though it's not entirely unwarranted, seeing how aggressive it sounds, and exactly what the music is illustrating (pagan sacrifice)..that being said, good luck with getting over it.

[meowkie]

Thanks a lot. I appreciate it!

[COCOONFABULA]

Listen to Scriabin's Prometheus poem of fire or Vers la flamme, they might help you with you fear

[huzzah012]

when i was little, this was the only music that truly scared me, so i know where you're coming from. now i'm ok with it but, the rite of spring still is a little scary for me.

[RikaC00kie]

Totally! I know what you mean!

[huzzah012]

don't worry. i was terrified of this music from when i was little and first saw disney's fantasia. it wasn't until quite recently that i finally came to absolutely love it.

[DOMITSU22]

Gorgeous! Magnifique!

De l'énergie à l'état pur, à l'état brut...

Béjard et Stravinsky étaient fait l'un pour l'autre...

[gotshrimp33]

I'm no dancer(I play the trumpet), but I absolutely love this piece. The choreography is a little weird at parts but really fascinating nonetheless. Those ballet dancers are really talented!

[MeisterAlf]

WTF?!

[swanstep]

Amazing stuff. Stravinsky's music is almost too powerful...

[PrincessAdelight]

I really like this ballet. The music is wonderful though quite unusual and the dancers are truly great.

[louiseduvee]

This is one of the most innovative dnces i have ever seen. Provocative.

Thanks, much.

[balletnut]

Well, I've now seen all four and WOW! I thought the 'original' couldn't be bettered, but this more than equals it, and they're SO different.

Thanks for posting it Kalla - I ALWAYS enjoy anything you post.

[south0park04ever1]

the sacrifice in this is great, even though it isn't really a sacrifice ...!

[creematthew]

This is so ridiculous.

[creematthew]

Don't get me wrong, the music is great. The video is awful.

[Szphie50]

Well that makes more sense, but why is the video so awful? While the music a far greater than any choreography can be, this better than most attempts at depicting the sort of primitive, tribal impulse. lacking any individual consciousness/awareness Stravinsky seemed to be aiming for in his music

[creematthew]

I got three words for why it's awful. One legged dancing.

[repelicant9]

Szphie50/ I definately agree with your comment 'lacking any individual consciousness/awareness'. It can be read in main female actor's face, in her only one character who binded her hair like tail of horse. This is one of the most outstanding ballet description for music in history, though we see it got improved more and more with years went on by Maurice Bajar. I feel truly sorry for the loss of him years ago.

[Stravinsky256]

You are such an idiot ! You don't appreciate wonderfull ballet ! go back to the Middle Ages ! you moron ! The music is wonderful !

[Stravinsky256]

(I was Talking yo Creemattew)

[MexisxReitaxchan]

Hey now, don't be mean, big bully.

[Stravinsky256]

Well, I'm sorry for you if i'm a "bully" it's not my fault if some people tend to listen music which they don't like and who put idiotic comments which are not even justified...

[louiseduvee]

Do you have any idea what Chritine Brabant means to dancers everywhere? Why do you watch? Do you like to argue? Why don't you argue with ME?

[RationalEmotive]

Care to explain why and enlighten us with your obviously superior insight into theory of art?

[acerflots]

Wasn't the story that the primitive russian tribe celebrated the coming of spring by letting a young girl dance till she drops dead? That's what my music teacher told me... and what role does the weakest man (who couldn't jump the arms of the other two men) have in this piece? I'm ashamed of myself, but I don't recognise a sacrifice...

[suboticserbia1]

this is one of the best rite of springs i have seen but mystic ballets is better

[yanpan16]

wow

[francescoviespro]

Meraviglioso! ancora grazie molto Kalla31

[MissBasura]

I was with this until 3:11. That bunny hop is too much for me.

[Ragland1952]

It is reminiscent of the Joffrey Ballet reconstruction of Nijinsky's original choreography, though.

[songoftherushes]

yknow what's fun?...if you start all four parts at the same time and leave the sound on...!!!

i think i am going to be morph into something...

[south0park04ever1]

I loved the sacrifice. Wow. Speechless. I didn't like this choreography at first, but in the end ... just wow.

[theantonioexperience]

no me gusta mucho, la interpretacion original es con un vestuario mas surrealista trantado de no resaltar la forma humana, es mas oculto mas sugerente

[Furrer25]

Joder. Esta interpretación es una pasada! Gracias por subirlo. :) :) :)

[pertedetemps333]

I am so glad to finally have seen this! Thank you so much for uploading it! I must admit though that I was more impressed with Nadia Bari's solo than with the finale itself. I feel like the choreography had too many still moments for the frenetic pace of the musical climax. But overall, I can understand why this is a classic!

[ichmalealsobinich]

C'etait phantastique! J'ai jamais vue une choreographie si brilliante!

[lililapeste01]

it's very great

[Kalla31]

oui, Jorge Donn danse dans ce sacre du printemps.

[flamenco31]

Il me semble voir Jorge Donn dans ce ballet , surtout au début .. du ballet.

[1Altair]

Moi aussi. le deuxième homme à se "déployer"?

[Evilthings]

It's sad that not many people know about the Rite of Sprigs, maybe one of the greatest ballets ever! Thatnks for posting this!

[leroyosmon]

I think everyone in the world of dance knows of this ballet.

[Evilthings]

Well of course in the world of dance, but not in the world, kind of how The Nutcracker is known by everyone, the the rite isnt.

[leroyosmon]

Yes, I agree with that statement. It is the greatest work fo the pst 100 years (including mine!). ha ha

[Evilthings]

I doubt you could compete with Stravinsky.