As I was planning the concerts for my first season as Sarasota Orchestra’s music director, I was absolutely certain that our audiences should experience Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. It wasn’t ...

When Klaus Mäkelä formally succeeds music director emeritus Riccardo Muti at the Chicago Symphony next season, he’ll arrive here from Paris — the Orchestre de Paris, to be exact, which he leads ...

Early this year, 38 dancers from 14 African countries were assembled to mount a production of The Rite of Spring in the 1975 landmark version by the late Pina Bausch. It was due to premiere in Dakar ...

If you’d told me in March that it’d still feel like spring mere days before the start of June, I’d have laughed in your face. And if you’d told the audience members of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ...

Ever since I was first introduced to Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” in a course I took in university on Western Theatrical Dance, I have been in love with the piece. Two years ago, "The Rite ...

Running and leaping on a hard floor is one thing, but Bausch requires it to happen on a thick carpet of soft, crumbly peat. It takes 10 stagehands a full 30 minutes to cover the Sadler’s stage with ...