In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022. On May 2 and May 3 the venerated ASO music director laureate conducted a ...

The DSO's Brahms and Bruckner were linked only by proximity of premieres, but Stravinsky studied with the older Russian composer, and learned a lot of orchestral tricks from him. They're quite obvious ...

Stravinsky’s electrifying ballet and internationally celebrated pianist Olga Kern performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra welcomes back pianist Olga Kern to ...

Consider Tulsa Ballet’s first mixed-bill program of the 2013-2014 season as a prime example of how eloquent a wordless art form can be. Of course ballet can tell a story –– that’s one of the prime ...

The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...

IT WAS THE BALLET heard 'round the world. In 1913, when "The Rite of Spring" premiered in Paris -- with a pulsating score by Igor Stravinsky and groundbreaking choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky -- the ...

Kris Kneen’s Rite of Spring is an erotic exploration of what happens when we cross the boundaries of human identity.