Joffrey Ballet Rite of Spring 1987 (2 of 3)

These people were the first to perform this original Nijinsky ballet (also known as Le Sacre du Printemps) after its being lost for 70 years. Some of it was found in the margins of the score, on scraps, through the memories of the few living ballerinas. Hodson and archer pieced it together and had to fly blind in places but thank god it was done. Nothing like this has ever or will ever exist again. If you watch the Kirov (Mariinsky) do this same ballet and I have it here on my channel for the comparison, you’ll find it strikingly ridiculous. Though the video quality is much better (as it is 20 years later) the Russian dancers of the Mariinsky seem to feel nothing, hear no music,, do not know the libretto and almost seem to have no comprehension of this history changing piece of work of which they are fortunate enough to be involved in. It’s annoying actually. It is alienating. Perhaps that is what Nijinsky & Stravinsky were shooting for though not in concert at all. I guess no one will e