BEJART SACRE DU PRINTEMPS

[aciluardi]

Very strong!!!!

[parpandet]

a masterpiece



[captainkanji]

It's interesting if you imagine they're enacting the zombie apocalypse.

[poetaenlaluna]

this is crap, nothing compares to pina bausch version

[poetaenlaluna]

1:25 to 1:35 its so funny

[Jenstamborijn]

@poetaenlaluna Watched this in school, had a hard time trying not to laugh :p But the teacher laughed at it herself so it didn't really matter xD

[TheMrMajrester]

this makes me scare!

[Camelia1976ify]

Magnificient, a very strong experience, very expressive. A genius

[IvanTsarina]

i love the music!

[wendyverdades]

mesmerizing

[jeje6868]

Why does Roland Petit speaks so poorly of Bejart????

[orihamaon]

えろいよね…

[Memusik101]

Meilleure interprétation; c'est évident :) wow.

[xanglat]

Avec admiration intense !

En sus, merci à la personne qui a divinement filmé ce ballet sublime !

Avec reconnaissance extrême

[Gideon359]

what the hell is this

[LordN3mrod]

Bernstein described Le Sacre Du Printemps as dinosaur sex... exactly

[wcbroccoli]

Exciting music and and hot guys in tights. Works for me.

[dudumvf]

é muit odrama ave maria!! hauahu

[ClearPearl1]

Great!!!

[Megavolts]

Goose bumps

[1psoas9]

Balanchine said he liked it. So do I. Suits the music really well. I don't see any waste.

[Melanyyy9]

Pour info : Ce passage se situe à quel moment du spectacle ? A la toute fin ??

[Allsopxx]

i saw it at opera house Scala in Milano... fantastic.. i love it

[vijaypush]

Quelle chance !!!!!!!!!!

[Jolie028]

Superbe!

[jestempies]

I would describe the choreography here as lethargic and ungraceful.

[861147]

@jestempies and sporadic

[AerdnaZaze]

they waste a lot of the music , I really don't like it

[kirschii94]

Huh? Wasn't the composition a bit different?

In this composition ...I think.. you can't dicern the shifting time signature?

(But it could be, that I've only forgotten this music..)

And...the ballet.. is that modern..or art or something?

At the beginning they looked so clumsy.. ó.ò

And why is the hair of the women open? In some way its disturbing.

Despite that I like this play ^-^

[TheGreatLudwig]

The music, choreography and costumes are so completely different because when Stravinsky composed this, it was not supposed to be a normal ballet, but rather a look back to the origins of music and dance and thus very primitive. It was (and is) completely revolutionary. The people who did this version are just continuing in the same vein as Stravinsky and co.

[14775573]

I'm afraid I just cannot agree with you. Stravinsky went about creating the most authentic music/dance experience possible. I find the current interpretation of his music quite conventional actually. Normal dress, normal dance, even the sexual expression is very normal for our time. It contains absolutely no originality I'm afraid.

[ClarinetistJuan]

Try composing this, then you'd have a different thought.

[hannahcenteno]

Well, sex and sexuality are very primitive.

[Gadonis69]

Stravinsky wrote in a way to make it SOUND like the time signitures are very simple, despite their actually being very difficult. If you could hear the changes, it would defeat the purpose of his style of writing.

[hjusioli]

I find choreograph and the costumes adequate. They don't diminish the impact, and the score is strong enough to support a so modernist approach.

Thanks for sharing.

[14775573]

Paulypualypaul: A ballet is the written music -the dance is choreographed to the music. Not other way round. I must agree with TheGreatLudwig. austinvs: Should we reinterpret Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms to make their music as "shocking" as it was then? Moron. ezyrod: Thanks for speaking sense - the original costumes (which do still exist) are lush and beautiful, not plain and pale like these. AGuyWhoPunkUMama: what on earth is a Freemason pagan? TheGreatLudwig: You speak the truth indeed.

[TheGreatLudwig]

You stupid, pusillanimous, illiterate, vacuous morons! Next time you want to comment on a composer's music, either get a degree, or do a bit of research! You must all be American because your stupidity seems to be limitless and profound. If I could make a suggestion... all the back-bred Neanderthals that made idiotic comments, do us all a favour and kill yourselves to save the world from your disgusting, devolved, hill-billy genes! Caio!

[AGuyWhoPunkUMama]

this song was written for a Freemason pagan ritual where a virgin sacrifices herself by dancing to death.....this music actually sends shivers down my spine...it's wonderful...yet...terrifying to watch...

[aksquash]

odd that you should say that because it is used for a satanic ritual called das tierdrama. although i think you should check some facts because i dont think pagans approve of sacrifice

[MercifulMe]

I do not think it is a "Freemason Pagan" ritual, but rather a Pagan ritual, originating most likely from Russia, where Stravinsky was born.

[ezyrod]

I think this ballet, to work, needs costumes and sets . To me this just seems like a lot of writhing around . The original is actually beautiful.

[herozero68]

who is the female soloist?

pretty impressive!

[saintetienne19]

los vestuarios no pueden ser peores.

no existe comparacion con la coreografía de pina bausch

[lesatz4]

Excelente coreografía de M. Béjart, muy distinta a a algunas que ya he tenido la oportunidad y el placer de ver en directo. Me llama la atención los bailarines principales, pues no son tan estilizados o delgados como normalmente escogía Béjart, aunque particularmente me gusta mucho más esta estética.

La música también resulta sorprendente, la encuentro preciosa.

[astromusefuse]

does anyone know where the recording is from (land or year or something) ans if there exist a dvd ore something eles with the whole recording ??

to libbeingcool the name of the ballet is "le sacre du printemps" from igor stravinsky

[libbeingcool]

anyone know the name of the song?

[feisal200506]

The name of the song is Le Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring) composed by Igor Stravinsky.

[lalelu7]

not entirely true, it's supposed to be the story about people sacrificing a human to the god of spring...

[astromusefuse]

kann mir irgendwer sagen wo diese aufnahme herstammt ??

[deathstorm600]

fucking shiiit

[gatoulis25]

this is marvelus !!!

this is excellent !!!!!

[suboticserbia1]

im sorry but this is just horible everything is fine with the dancers but the choreographer doesnt make a story its just perverted sex, true beauty is in something that anyone can make their own story and even if they are different they are all right

[ErgoLue]

maybe perversness, anarchistical monumentality is, what makes it so fascinating?

[anniklita]

ok..do you think that you are so perfect that you can criticize maurice bejart?? do you know who is he???

[Wuzzgoof]

He/she doesn't need to think he's perfect to have his own opinion on this. Stfu ms. ''i know all''.

[yanpan16]

well the dance is supposed to be based on primitive tribes, and the sacrifices and ceremonies carried out by these tribes were often sexual so this is just an attempt at reflecting these tribes.

[paulypaulypaul]

Sorry again, but this is not quite right either. Yes, the ballet is meant to be based on primitive tribes. The sacrifice is of a virgin to Spring (it says so in the score) and it seems to me that that is probably where the sexual references come from. However, the original choreography was lost years ago so it may not have been like that before. We actually have almost no knowledge of what the rites were like among early tribes. The ideas are very much 19th century in their assumptions.

[austinvs]

The choreography was not lost, THE WHOLE THING IS MADE UP. The idea of the original ballet by Nijinsky was to portray the sacrificial rite of a FAKE, INVENTED ancient people. NOT in any way to portray anything of reality, and it actually was very sexual for it's time. Bejart, and others that have re-envisioned it, are trying to make it as cutting edge now as it was then. It was so shocking to it's first audience, that there were fist fights in the isles.

[paulypaulypaul]

Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. I meant the choreography from the first performances was lost, which it was. All we have are some sketches of how the original looked and some of the positions used. I didn't mean that any actual ritualistic dances were lost. Those are obviously made up. If by the whole thing being made up, you mean it is improvised, that isn't right, but I'm not sure that this is what you mean.

[raulyaisha]

If you think of sacryfying "Spring" as an Idea, a simbol, it may make sense. During the spring of our lives (youth) the two sexes are somehow apart. When you "kill" that spring is when you loose your virginity and the union male-female opens a new chapter in your live.

You must somehow sacryfice something to enter maturity.

[coasterman16]

I don't understand why a choreographer would voluntarily turn a solo sacrificial dance into a massive, synchronized rape. It directly contradicts what Stravinsky was trying to do in this scene. Instead of a lone person dying, everyone performs an affirmation of life.

[yanpan16]

Stravinsky just intended this piece to be a series of tribal dances, the themes and stories are up to interpretation.

[paulypaulypaul]

Sorry to be picky, but this simply isn't right. The piece of music was commissioned by Diaghalev in order to accompany the ballet. The piece is in several sections which describe each section to the ballet. Yes, the details may still be open to interpretation but that is the details of the story and therefore also the music not just the meaning of the piece...

[jovan742]

Poniranje u samu bit ljudskog bica i muzikom i pokretom. Bozanstveno. Izraz covekove i muske i zenske prirode...

[jovan742]

Hvala za uzivanje u caroliji pokreta i muzike.

[LupineLooPine]

What a movement. I completely love Stravinsky. Rite of spring is easily one of the most, if not THE most genuinely primal classical pieces of music ever made and this ballet movement has done Stravinsky justice! What an awesome video fibonacci69 . These guys make Dirty Dancing look like the Teletubbies. Although in defense of the Teletubby Tinky Winky..he has been known to do some of these movements outside the show with muppets and other musky mosquito mascots. He's a naughty li'l tubby.

[galine13]

superbe!! on sent toute la folie de ce rituel! c'est très bien filmé, en plus!

[amywilson9]

For me, this is what the essence of The Rite is about. Bejart really gets it!

[conewells]

God, what incredible bodies these women have.

(the guys too, I guess)

[szhan1022]

haha

my orquestra teacher said that the song was so chaotic sounding that during the first performance everyone in the audience went crazy and started a riot

thats why i love this song though

its so chaotic sounding

[SpikeE88]

Yes, I think everybody left the hall, except a collegue Composer (I think it was Debussy, but I'm not sure). He stayed because of loyalty :)))

[bixiland1]

Uno dei balleti piu' belli mai creati. Vederlo, tantissimi anni fa a Parigi, e' stata un'esperienza travolgente.

[ostatusdoquo]

this is just Powerful! What an amazing coreography to match stravinsky's masterpiece. Absolutely visceral.

[rubixboy]

How do the guys in this not get erections?....The girls are so attractive.

[cyrano1064]

gay perhaps?

[szhan1022]

i dont think even gay people can fight back lust

its a human instinct

all you have to do is masturbate before the performance

this is just my opinion but for me its true

[funguspower]

Too... Much... Information...

[LupineLooPine]

Why the negative comments? He's got a perfectly valid question. Tight revealing clothes, doing a primitive dance on a darkened stage. Even Hugh Hefner wouldn't need a viagra there.

My guess is that the dancers are so trained and used to the motions they have to do, so practiced..that they're just going through the motions at this stage and experiencing the interpersonal feelings related to the motion to get that "flow" across,without being so into the moment outside the framework of the dance

[Jayjen35]

Ballet dancers start training from the time they are between four and seven or eight years old. By the time they get onto a professional stage I'm sure they're very used to seeing girls in tight dance clothes.

They get used to it, and the human body being what it is, even when it does happen I'm sure they have ways of dealing with it.

Frankly I wonder if you'd even be able to tell given the dance belts.

[RafaellaSousa]

That's overwhelming!

[goosejuice288]

hawt

[mitchellcbridge]

is this contempary  ballet

[zauberklarinette]

Oh My God! The fact that her foot was force-bent rather than pointed when she spun was beautiful!

[SaMiSuRu]

it's about sex, isn't it?

[BillSalem]

Take a look at the original Sacre du Printemps as choreographed by Nijinsky and lovingly resurrected by the Joffrey Company. Broadcast on PBS some years ago. Choreographically the Nijinsky is a masterpiece. Like the music, the ballet was under-rated.

Myself, I think this is uneven which is not to say uninteresting. But conceptually, the movement is not always equal to the grandeur of the music.

As far as costumes go, the unitards are boring.

Overall, Bejart has done better.

[Chzn8r]

Heh heh... now I can imagine why the debut of this piece would've caused a riot a century ago!

[Huissssss]

Thursday I went to Béjart ballet and it was BEAUTIFULL! And le sacre du printemps really is my favourite piece of him.

[Laroling]

Every rhythmical repetition, surprise and small change is that well expressed in the dance! Fantastic!

[StubbornCanary]

Impressive

[StubbornCanary]

Impressive

[amywilson9]

WOW! That's pretty awesome!

[barcelonabailarina]

Tellement triste qu'il ne soie plus entre nous. J'adore sa choréo du sacre printemps.

[ximenezb]

Truly wonderful. I wish I could see this live!

[france1800]

bien loin de Tania Bari et Germinal Casado

[Melaneimoon]

Béjart knew what he was doing, this choreography prefectly matches the spirit of the piece.

Wonderful and terrifying!

[chemistryprofessor]

SPECTACULAR!!

[thesavster522]

Wow!! That was be-a-u-t-ful!! It was like candy, and my mouth was wid open the whole 04:41 minutes.

[oripin12]

wonderful

[SimSutcliff]

So beautiful! The movements of the solists and of the chorus, the lignts...A fantastic staging! And "tant pis" if it doesn't fit exactly the story line!

[LabyH5]

RIP

[Franceann]

wonderful choregraph!

[flamenco31]

Maurice Béjart est Mort ...

Vive Maurice Béjart !

[Johnny1206]

talent fabuleux !

[mozart200657]

Honour to a great artist

[Thebestkiller27]

paix a son ame

[ToWEeAsa]

I prefer Pina Bausch

[maggiedonlon]

Goodness, I can't believe I danced this piece, it seems so dated.....

[balletnut]

Considering she's SUPPOSED to be a virgin, there's nothing remotely virginal about her! I prefer the 'original' version.

[loseer2]

I didnt like it. Isnt this supposed to be the virgin's solo? And I thought that this scene was supposed to be more about sexual frustration rather than just the sexuality between a man and a women. And no offense to anyone, but I felt the choreography seemed a little amature and that it was lacking. I just dont think it potrayed very well the story it was supposed to tell

[kbpking]

That's more the interest about the body's forms that should be demonstrated here, the interest is not about the natural and animal sexuality but more about the men's and women's bodies. That's why the dancers seem to be naked and the light let guess the forms of the bodies.

[iwanttowatchsomethin]

Well, I felt the choreographer could only hear the forte parts. The whole continuum of the music is alive, but this choreographer just poses the dancers for each loud puff of music. There are other effects that were interesting though, which had to do with having so many figures to play with on the stage.

[Mangotropolis]

Very Interesting. I'd like to know what's the story line.

[anders59]

The ballet is basically a series of tribal dances, and there is a virgin selected by one of the elders to dance herself to death in order to please the gods of spring.

[Mangotropolis]

Well, thats.. o.o Heartwarming. Dance to death, very passionate.

[Jayjen35]

While that is the story of the score and the original ballet, the looks to be a very different interpretation.

It seems to have more to do with awakening or re-awakening sexuality. Sort of like the two main dancers are chosen as guinea pigs for the rest of the tribe. And in seeing them successful they follow suite. Or at least their ceremony looks to follow that line.

Or maybe not, but the virgin doesn't appear to die here!

[mekate2007]

wow what a (sexual)power in this dance, must have been a real shock to the public when it was first performed

[CaptPoco]

Whoa, that's hawt. and kinda funny

[adam28xx]

Hi ... where can one buy a DVD of this Bejart production complete ?

[ninjapik1]

Music: Igor Stravinsky

[manofthehoff]

Interesting interpretation.

[dancewuki]

does somebody got this music????? i adore it very much but i cant find it no where:( please if somebody got it then write to me!!!thanks

[PedroGron77]

Look for: "Le Sacre Du Printemps" by Igor Stravinsky.

There are many different performances of this music.

[chlokske]

amazing

[flamenco31]

Le début du ballet est aussi pas mal..

Vivement le printemps