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"A Companion not only to Stravinsky's path-breaking score, but to the ballet's legacy across the centuries. It illuminates the controversial Ballets Russes premiere in 1913 and the complex artistic developments and scholarly debates it set in motion, intertwining music, theatrical ballet and modern dance with the wider world of ideas"--
List of contents
List of figures; List of examples; Notes on contributors; Chronology of the Rite of Spring; Introduction: on criticism, excess and felt response Davinia Caddy; Part I. The Paris Premiere: 1. Transforming the world of dance: the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev Jane Pritchard; 2. Genesis and collaboration: Igor Stravinsky's music for the rite of spring Tamsin Alexander; 3. Nicholas Roerich's Rite of Spring: costumes, décors and visual design Mary E. Davis; 4. Movement and choreographic influence: the contribution of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Rite of Spring Renate Bräuninger; 5. The Rite of Spring in the Parisian press Sarah Gutsche-Miller; Part II. Contexts: 6. Framing modernism: primitivism, grotesquerie and orientalism in French art and visual culture Gurminder Kaur Bhogal; 7. Vesna Svyashchennaya: the rites of spring in Russian art and tradition Olga Haldey; 8. Situating the Rite of Spring within Stravinsky's compositional oeuvre Maureen Carr and Phillip Mackenzie Torbert; 9. The Soviet context: the Rite of Spring at the Bolshoi Theatre; Part III. Performance and Interpretation: 10. The Rite of Spring in concert, on record and online Daniel Barolsky; 11. Choreographic visions and revisions Rachana Vajjhala; 12. The Rite of Spring in popular culture and cinema Luke Howard; Part IV. Scholarship: 13. Contesting analytical traditions Daniel K. L. Chua; 14. Transcribed Rites of Spring: revisionist narratives across music and dance history Samuel N. Dorf; Conclusion: reflections, ideas, supplements Tatiana Baranova Monighetti; Further reading; Index.
About the author
Davinia Caddy is author of The Ballets Russes and Beyond: Music and Dance in Belle-Epoque Paris (Cambridge, 2012), co-editor of Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives (Cambridge, 2020), author of How to Hear Classical Music (2013) and frequent contributor to Radio New Zealand.
