The Rite of Spring, original French title, Le sacre du printemps, is a ballet with music by Igor Stravinsky ; choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky; and concept, set design and costumes by Nicholas Roerich. It was produced by Sergei Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes ballet company and had its premiere in Paris on 29 May 1913.
The music’s innovative complex rhythmic structures, timbres, and use of dissinance have made it a seminal 20th century composition. In 1973, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein said of one passage, “That page is sixty years old, but it’s never been topped for sophisticated handling of primitive rhythms…”, and of the work as a whole, “…it’s also got the best dissonances anyone ever thought up, and the best asymmetries and polytonalities and polyrhythms and whatever else you care to name.”
Performance hours:
Friday 9th of September 20:30 – 22:00
Saturday 10th of September 20:30 – 22:00
The piece will be performed in a double bill with Belinda and Goddess
Company: MyPocket Production (www.this.is/mypocket)
Choreographer/director: Helena Jónsdóttir, Pálína Jónsdóttir
Music: Orginal score by Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Performed by: Cleveland Orchestra
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Music editing: Birkir Gíslason
Performers: Pálína Jónsdóttir, Snædís Lilja Ingadóttir, Eygló Ásta Þorgeirsdóttir, Hildur Jakobína Tryggvadóttir, Aníta Ísey, Alexandra Ósk Sigurðardóttir, Þórey Birgisdóttir og Halla Þórðardóttir.
