Riot at the Rite

BBC Movie about Stravinsky s masterpiece The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps) (1913). In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor Stravinsky s The Rite of Spring, danced by the Ballet Russes. The rehearsal process is extremely fraught: the orchestra dislike Stravinsky s harsh, atonal music; the dancers dislike the ugly choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky. The volatile, bisexual Nijinsky is