Performing Rites: how Stravinsky’s Sacre du printemps still shocks

Premiere of Le Sacre du printemps (1913)

Tamara Rojo

Vasily Petrenko

Francesca Velicu in Pina Bausch's Le Sacre du printemps

English National Ballet in Pina Bausch's Le Sacre du printemps

Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky (in costume as Petrushka)

Original costume for Le Sacre du printemps

Von Mark Pullinger, 29 März 2021

Laden, bitte warten...

“it is one of the most physically and psychologically demanding pieces for any dancer to face”

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.