by Andrea Marks | May 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Joffrey Ballet performs Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring Is it just me, or are dance-goers less enthusiastic than they used to be? One hundred years ago today, the audience went nuts over the premiere of a ballet. Literally. They screamed, shouted, nearly rioted in...
by Jenny Dalzell | Mar 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Reimagining ballet for the 20th century Boston Ballet’s Josephine Pra and Romine Rykine in Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun In 1909, Sergei Diaghilev organized the first Ballets Russes performance at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. A Russian impresario, Diaghilev had...