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

Premiere of Le Sacre du printemps (1913)
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Tamara Rojo
© Karolina Kuras
Vasily Petrenko
© Svetlana Tarlova
Francesca Velicu in Pina Bausch's Le Sacre du printemps
© Laurent Liotardo
English National Ballet in Pina Bausch's Le Sacre du printemps
© Laurent Liotardo
Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky (in costume as Petrushka)
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Original costume for Le Sacre du printemps
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“it is one of the most physically and psychologically demanding pieces for any dancer to face”
Mark Pullinger