The Rite of Spring Part 1

This piece is so challenging for a dancer; it goes out of their comfort zone like ballet and modern, an makes them go into thumping beats, falling on the ground, and hand moments that are just awkward. Plus you have to stay on every beat of the music or the whole dance looks crappy. Ninjsky really showed that there is no boundaries to dance, which is why we love his choreography sooo much.

(oh, and I said becuase I'm a dancer too and have tried this before...it's hard)

This yeah, my high schools marching show music was based off of the rite of spring. It went perfectly with the theme.
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Excellent!

I think you're thinking of Petrouchka. I'm pretty sure this is the real choreography for Rite of Spring.

I love this ballet SO MUCH!!!!!!

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Interesting history behind this piece. I was so glad when I first saw a film of the Joffrey reproducing this. Very evocative.

Wow. This is really impressive!

What I think is especially interesting is the way the dancers and the orchestra (via the conductor) seem to interact. Just before 3:00, for example, when the dancing starts: the music is much slower, deliberate, violent than I've heard in other performances--even Stravinsky's own.

This is called great ensemble playing. If only more concerto and opera recordings featured this: more solo/ensemble interaction instead of mere showing off while the ensemble tries to be as quiet as possible.

I'm not at all familiar with ballet, but I could still tell, once the stomping--er, dancing--began, that this is something different. It's primal, very dark, and, even to my 21st-century eyes, somewhat disturbing. I can certainly see what bothered people about it, especially when it's paired with Stravinsky's music, which is violent even by today's standards.

There are lots of syncing errors between the dancers and the orchestra, but maybe that makes it better: somehow even more primitive.

The syncing is probably just the effect of uploading to youtube, this often causes the video to be out of sync with the audio.