A strange, bewitching ceremony took place this weekend at Zellerbach Hall. 17 stagehands marched onstage at the show’s intermission, ripped up the gray Marley floor, unfurled a massive dusty black ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese dance legend and renowned choreographer Yang Liping brings her stunning reimagining of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to Stanford Live in its U.S premiere. A product of her native Chinese culture ...

As a child in Cape Town, South Africa, Sonia Zandile Constable was expected to find a “serious” career in academics or medicine. That may have happened, except for a fateful tea break her teacher took ...

For dancer Anique Ayiboe, entering the world of "The Rite of Spring" has been a journey of discovery. The Togolese dancer, who has been traveling and performing the renowned 1975 Pina Bausch piece ...

For dancer Anique Ayiboe, entering the world of “The Rite of Spring” has been a journey of discovery. The Togolese dancer, who has been traveling and performing with the renowned Pina Bausch ...

Lucy Weir receives funding from The Leverhulme Trust. The ballet became a symbol of modernity, a bold vision of the future that was steeped in a global heritage. Sixty years later, in the German city ...

In 1984, at the age of 90, Martha Graham choreographed to Leopold Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” In 1984, at the age of 90, Martha Graham took on the enormous task of choreographing to Leopold ...