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What The Rite of Spring demands from a ballet company is the complete unlearning of classical technique . When Vaslav Nijinsky choreographed the 1913 premiere in Paris , he instructed the highly trained dancers to turn their feet inward and hunch their shoulders . Rarely had a Parisian audience witnessed such an aggressive departure from grace and tradition . The unconventional movements , paired with Igor Stravinsky’s dissonant and percussive score , provoked a famous riot in the theatre on opening night . Today , the rhythmic complexity of the music remains a formidable challenge . Stravinsky constantly shifted the time signatures throughout the piece , meaning that the musicians must count the beats relentlessly , and the dancers must do so too . During that chaotic first performance , the noise from the crowd grew so loud that the performers could no longer hear the orchestra . Nijinsky himself had to stand on a chair in the wings to shout the counts to the stage , though the dancers dared not rely entirely on his voice over the uproar . We ought to possess a complete record of Nijinsky’s groundbreaking work , but we do not . The original choreography was performed only a handful of times before being removed from the repertoire , and the steps were lost for more than seventy years . Not until the late 1980s did the dance historian Millicent Hodson manage to reconstruct the ballet . She spent over a decade piecing together surviving rehearsal notes , original sketches , and interviews with the former performers . A central challenge of staging the reconstruction lies in the costumes designed by Nicholas Roerich . The cast wear heavy , historically inspired Russian peasant garments , which restrict their movement far more than traditional tutus do . The climax of the piece , the " Sacrificial Dance " , pushes a soloist to their absolute physical limits . To perform this exhausting final sequence requires immense stamina , and only the most resilient dancers dare attempt it . Have you ever attended a performance that completely surprised or challenged you ? If you were a dancer , would you dare to perform a piece that breaks all the traditional rules ?
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