Rites of Spring

Music: Igor Stravinsky
Libretto, choreography and staging: People’s Artist of the USSR & Belarus Valentin Yelizariev
Musical Leader & Conductor: Gennady Provatorov
Conductor: Vyacheslav Volych
Decorations & Costumes: Honored Artist of Russia, Laureate of State Price of the Republic of Belarus Vyacheslav Okunev
First night: 1913, Dyagilev’s Russian Ballet, Paris
First night of the present staging version: 1997
Duration: 40 minutes

Wednesday and a sunny day it is too.
I awoke at 9 to the sound of pigeons mating again.
Ah the rites of spring- Le sacré du printemps



I have vivid memories of the Cullberg ballet , Nicklas Ek in the leading role, performing this multi- dimensional work of art. Stage filled with half naked dancers,rhythmical dancing to Igor Stravinsky's music. The pulsing and throbbing, the shifting colours, mingling bodies, evoking the Life Force . Kundalini rising.

This is not something that is meant to be understood with the mind , but experienced with every cell of the body :yes: Enjoyable too. No thinking required. just enjoying.

So easy to get carried away .:))