original choreography

Watch this modern reconstruction of the original choreography to Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Links to an external site.) ( here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FAg9SXGuumyQNB92TJef-yUeoWxHvlQ)    (in three parts—watch all of them, about 30mins)

Write down your reactions to the music as well as to the choreography. How do you think they relate to one another? Does either seems “strange” to you? What about the piece (either dance or music) feels “modern” to you? Does it still feel “modern” today?

Read the short attached piece by Stravinsky (“What I Wished to Express in the Rite“)…does the composer writing on his own piece change your reaction towards it at all?  ( i attacth in the file)

Watch this modern reconstruction of the original choreography to Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Links to an external site.) ( here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FAg9SXGuumyQNB92TJef-yUeoWxHvlQ)    (in three parts—watch all of them, about 30mins)

Write down your reactions to the music as well as to the choreography. How do you think they relate to one another? Does either seems “strange” to you? What about the piece (either dance or music) feels “modern” to you? Does it still feel “modern” today?

Read the short attached piece by Stravinsky (“What I Wished to Express in the Rite“)…does the composer writing on his own piece change your reaction towards it at all?  ( i attacth in the file)