Igor Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’: The modernist ballet that sparked a riot - The Communist

Igor Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’: The modernist ballet that sparked a riot - The Communist

Stravinsky captured the spirit of the modernist movement. The Rite of Spring ballet, published in 1913, was decried as ‘childish barbarity’ by its bourgeois critics at the time. In reality, it only refracted the horrors that would unfold in the next four years of world war. The post Igor Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’: The modernist ballet that sparked a riot appeared first on The Communist.