'It's a grief and a healing': why dance-makers love The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky's ballet sensation of 1913 shocked its first Paris audience. More than 150 versions later, the far-reaching pull of this modernist masterpiece remains irresistible… For a work that changed the course of dance, introducing a blast of modernism into a conventional art form, Vaslav Nijinsky's The Rite of Spring had a surprisingly short shelf life. Despite more than 130 fraught and complicated rehearsals as …