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Rites of Spring

As we move from season to season, The Rite of Spring may well come to mind.  But as Stravinsky’s music plays in your head, what do you visualize? At least ten different conceptions of this iconic score have been presented at the Pillow, and here you can sample several.

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Rites of Spring

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Ballet BC

Consagración, 2015

The Pillow’s 2015 season opened with this brand-new vision of  Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” by Gustavo Ramírez Sansone, the former director of Luna Negra.

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Martha Graham Dance Company

The Rite of Spring, 2013

Although Graham herself danced The Chosen One in 1930, she didn’t get around to choreographing her own version until 1984, and she personally rehearsed it on the Ted Shawn Theatre stage that same year.

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Compagnie Heddy Maalem

Le Sacre du Printemps, 2008

This French-Algerian choreographer brought together dancers from five different African countries to embody his vision, for which he used Stravinsky’s original title, Le Sacre du Printemps.

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Nederlands Dans Theater 2

Dream Play, 2007

These dancers perform on a stage within a stage to bring Swedish choreographer Johan Inger’s vision of a mysterious daydream to life. Nederlands Dans Theater 2 made its Pillow debut in this Dream Play.

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Emanuel Gat Dance

The Rite of Spring, 2006

This 2004 vision of The Rite of Spring by Israeli choreographer Emanuel Gat combines the rhythms of Salsa dance with Stravinsky’s timeless score.

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Molissa Fenley

State of Darkness, 1988

The boldly individual Molissa Fenley first brought her State of Darkness to the Pillow shortly after it was created in 1988, and returned to see a dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet perform it on the same stage in 2014.

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