I swear to god this is what the people who live above me are doing at 3am every night

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

I keep thinking about this comment, hilarious.

@jacobmorris3664

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect comment. I hope they've stopped!

@T1nxc0

2 жыл бұрын

they are probably Stravinsky fans

@jaismohamed9042

Жыл бұрын

I've been coming here just to laugh at this comment 😂

@nashwamostafa-rg8mq

Жыл бұрын

😂

My mother danced in this recording

@hannahringel4892

4 жыл бұрын

Contrabassology really? Who? Where?

@fatimaisra9143

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, that's really cool ! =D

@zagiproductions1630

4 жыл бұрын

That actually looks like it was fun to preform

@joev4545

4 жыл бұрын

She must have been a good dancer

@ingwerschorle_

4 жыл бұрын

@@zagiproductions1630 from what i've heard it's really ducking hard

Stravinsky said that his opening introduction “should represent the awakening of nature, the scratching, gnawing, wiggling of birds and beasts.” I think it does!

@fatovamingus

7 жыл бұрын

No way! I believe it though. I have that movie "Once At A Border"...awesome. I am sure he talks about it there. I am glad you commented.

@Victor1930

7 жыл бұрын

I've seen the quote in a couple of different places. Not familiar with the movie you mention. I'll have to look into it.

"He's probably out there cheating on me." Me and the boys in a park at 2 am:

Society: Ah the ballet, so beautiful. And the ballerinas, so graceful. Ballerinas: *wanna see us do some weird shit then sacrifice someone?*

@fatovamingus

4 жыл бұрын

Nice. I love a good f.u. to the French. Should happen more often.

@fatovamingus

4 жыл бұрын

I have to pin this ok?

@eddyyaeji6769

3 жыл бұрын

It sure pissed off Saint-Saens. I wonder if he was disturbed(because this was SAW level for that era) or he just didn't like the piece

@josephmoore4764

3 жыл бұрын

It was weird enough to cause a riot when it debuted

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

@@josephmoore4764 Nijinsky just threaded a needle with l'apres midi d'un faun and I'm sure the audience felt that there was no way it could get any crazier. in some ways it did and it was just the perfect storm. Roerich's concept Stravinsky's explosion of music and Nijinsky's far from conventional ballet was just too much for these stuffy bastards. And so rather than trying check it out expand themselves they threw a fit. And the Nijinski was the effigy. Years later the maestro would say "they were very naive and stupid people they didn't know art"

I can understand why people flipped out back then. The music and choreography really made me feel anxious the whole time, but never failed to lose my attention. Definitely had some guts back then when it premiered!

@vesteel

8 жыл бұрын

They got pissed because of the dancers and the choreography. The second time this performed (without the dance) was a huge success

@fatovamingus

8 жыл бұрын

If you want to dig at it a bit what happened, only one man was going to come out of that alive. Nijinsky had just been wildly lauded for the provocative piece Afternoon of the Faun. Stravinsky, same thing with The Firebird and Petrushka. Stravinsky had a name and students such as Debussy and was right on the verge of great acclaim. Nijinsky just barely got away with the sexuality of his work in "Afternoon"...so he already had his feet in the fire.

@fatovamingus

7 жыл бұрын

Not really. It only played 9 times? And in Brazil or South America. Diaghilev sent Nijinsky on the road with it then cut him when he married, jealous French stuff. This choreography was not accepted until 1987 when the Joffrey debuted the unearthed masterpiece. Nijinsky ended up diagnosed a schizophrenic...I wonder if maybe he had the break during this.

@psyches_dream

7 жыл бұрын

Nijinsky had signs of mental illness throughout his life, but hings got progressively worse after he got married and was cut off by Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes. Slow, tragic, downward spiral.

@dianalee84

7 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for putting this up on KZread

This dancing and music emulates what I can only describe as pure fear. That's a hard emotion to portray, I have lots of respect for this piece.

@fatovamingus

6 жыл бұрын

I love reading this. These are the things that I wish for Nijinsky to have heard.

@thomaspatrickparker6648

6 жыл бұрын

less in this part, mostly in the 3rd. The movements are jerky and not graceful, like someone who is impaired with terror. I am not a huge fan of post modern art/music but it is so genuine that you can't ignore it

@fatovamingus

6 жыл бұрын

It may not surprise you then that this - Nijinsky's masterpiece and downfall was choreographed around the time he had a schizophrenic break.

@onelove9232

4 жыл бұрын

6

@danitiwa

3 жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus that would explain why i was fixated on this when i had a nervous breakdown and burned out at art school ... ah to feel so understood by two long deceased creative men 😆

It looks like Nijinsky and Stravinsky still shock people after more than 100 years. That's the undeniable evidence of their genius. :)

@oscarmike1131

8 жыл бұрын

very true

@ArticulatedHypernova

5 жыл бұрын

I shocked my gf by hiding behind a door and making a loud noise when she wasn't expecting it. Am I a genius?

@lordklek4769

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

@MadMamluk88

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArticulatedHypernova of the lowest caliber but yes, still a genius.

@amaltheacatherinehughes9672

2 жыл бұрын

If this still surprises people in modern times, I can hardly IMAGINE the SHOCK people felt seeing this for the first time in 1917.

I think I get why there were riots. You're an art-minded Parisian, you want to go to the ballet to see grace and beauty in motion, and the ballet starts you see this goofy crap. It's one thing to defy expectations, but this is NOTHING like anything you expected or even wanted to see. But then there's another side of this that you (an art-minded Parisian, remember) never expected: this really is effective at tapping into something primal in us, that part of us that still understands we're at the mercy of the elements and the whim of nature. You totally don't expect that to be dredged up, and you probably can't even put words to it. A room full of people with a lot of emotions roiling and bubbling and overflowing .... yeah I could see people going nuts for no rational reason.

@epicreader123

8 жыл бұрын

It's so....DARK and CREEPY O.o

@josephcairl4518

8 жыл бұрын

+kingbeauregard +MolecularMoonlight believe it or not, the riots were a more of a response to a Ballet being premiered in a concert hall as opposed to a theater more than anything else. Primitivism was once of Stravinsky's modes of influence but keep in mind that this was premiered in France that was being overtaken by the Futurist movement at the time. Social systemization was being challenged which included the way people view art and performance etiquette - i.e. you didn't premiere a ballet in a concert hall particularly one that is so perceptually vulgar

@fatovamingus

8 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/hqZ7ychulaaah9o.html

@kingbeauregard

8 жыл бұрын

That's a cool video, thanks! Stravinsky blames it on his audience being stupid, but I still think he might have underestimated how effective TRoS was at tapping into the primal. I felt it the first time I saw it, maybe they did too. That said, I want my sister's special ed class to perform TRoS and I am perfectly willing to go to hell for that.

@fatovamingus

8 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Roerich conceived the entire thing right down to the costumes. Now that was a fringe thinker. My father is a jazz musician - like the kind of jazz only jazz musicians like - and his best gig was at a childrens deaf school. I was there. It was...man, I can't think of the word. But your sister's special ed class will interpret The Rite without any preconceived ideas about music or riots...I think it would be perfect. PLEASE write me and let me know if this happens. fatova@yahoo.com

My favorite episode of Star Trek.

@mrbenoit5018

7 жыл бұрын

Connor Hay what?

@joanofarc33

6 жыл бұрын

Hector Berlioz LOL! You would have had to listen to the background music on Star Trek over the years. Much of this shows up in bits and pieces through various episodes. He knows from what he speaks.

@fatovamingus

6 жыл бұрын

joanofarc33 this piece is mimmicked all over the place. Max Steiner clipped at it a lot.

@andrewpytko2938

5 жыл бұрын

+Connor Hay What episode are you talking about?

@alexisinthelab

5 жыл бұрын

Connor Hay I love that episode too!! Another Star Trek fan. Hence the username, TOSTS stands for The Original Star Trek Series, LOL.

The musical piece doesn’t fully make sense until you see this reconstruction of the original choreography. As a former dancer myself I found this performance incredibly bizarre, creepy, and unsettling. Absolutely mesmerizing and magnificent!!!

@fatovamingus

5 ай бұрын

I love your comment. About 8 years ago music theory students were being told to watch this in the Rite.of Spring course... You got to go read them because these kids were of the minds that this piece was intense and frightening on its own and then they watched the ballet and couldn't sleep at night. Ha

@k.c.3022

5 ай бұрын

@@fatovamingus too funny!!! 😂 I saw an orchestral performance of it in November and it was SO cool live. Hopefully some day I will have the opportunity to see the ballet!!! I truly think they need to be performed together as was originally intended! 😆

@fatovamingus

5 ай бұрын

@@k.c.3022 look up les dissonances Rite of Spring. This is the coolest orchestra ever. All that was missing is standing up and slamming their violins on the ground when they were done. Here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/k6Blr7yHhN2ff6g.htmlsi=5e44_SuPXkc7hwHH

@k.c.3022

5 ай бұрын

@@fatovamingus amazing!!!!!!!

I can see how this would upset Parisians in 1913. The dancing is really unorthodox. Dare I say, savage even? I personally enjoy it for its weirdness.

@fatovamingus

7 жыл бұрын

They had just accepted Nijinsky's very sexual "Afternoon of the Faun (Debussy) and Stravinsky's Firebird. These were both edge offers to Paris. They both up'd the ante in both composition and choreography and did it TOGETHER. Thank God they did it. It opened the door for experiment for the life of art.

@edinmassana4532

7 жыл бұрын

More than a century away. And yet, could we possibly picture something so bewildering, so refreshingly revolutionary nowadays?

@ferretyluv

4 жыл бұрын

BlitztheDragon The first postmodern interpretive dance. He was ahead of his time. The world just wasn’t ready for it.

This gave me flashbacks to watching Disney's Fantasia as a kid.

@oni741

7 жыл бұрын

Homeslice Riley same

@screamingweevil3410

6 жыл бұрын

This music always made me sick, even before I knew the history of the piece. Scared me even more than the visuals from Night on Bald Mountain.

@Sofia-dg9uh

6 жыл бұрын

Screaming Weevil still makes me feel sick 😰

@riley-dd9pm

5 жыл бұрын

WITH THE DINOSAURS?!?!

@riley-dd9pm

5 жыл бұрын

Screaming Weevil oh my god yes that one was terrifying with the demon looking guy.

They do be vibin tho

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

hell yeah. had to pin that

@donjakobi2405

3 жыл бұрын

fo sho

Imagine writing something so fresh and so groundbreaking, it causes an audience of art snobs and gentry to *riot*. We could only wish to hold that kind of power.

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

He was willing to sacrifice his entire career for this ballet and it happened. Stravinsky became the greatest living composer and Vaslav Nijinsky was erased. 70 years went by and this was found finally pieced together painstakingly through Robert joffrey's philanthropy. We are a huge debt of gratitude to this dude. You're right about we should only be able to experience such a thing to be able to give up everything risk your entire career because you were so certain that what you did was right as an artist wow I think only Frank Zapp is the only other person who did it.

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

Did I ever tell you about the kid who said why don't they reconstruct the riot or at least do a flash mob? I thought it was stellar

who's here for music class??

@misterkant856

7 жыл бұрын

Every teen in here

@caitlinmacomber1303

7 жыл бұрын

history ftw

@blutak985

7 жыл бұрын

Devin Zhou yep

@tricia-annconner8832

7 жыл бұрын

BAND BITCHES

@tomforgeas4128

7 жыл бұрын

yep

this just blows my mind every time I see it..i want it performed at my funeral

@fatovamingus

5 жыл бұрын

THAT is so bad ass. You are the coolest person ever.

@bert7109

5 жыл бұрын

No it'll just unsettle your distant relatives

@fatovamingus

5 жыл бұрын

HA now i get it. Unsettle the relatives at the funeral. That is in my bucket: ruin my funeral for everyone

@charleyhibschweiler4555

5 жыл бұрын

Why would you want that? Dont get me wrong, I love this but... Why?

@skyshark0326

5 жыл бұрын

@@charleyhibschweiler4555 WHY NOT??😂😂

Truly wonder if John Williams was inspired by this when he made the jaws score. The dissonant tones, repetitive striking cords is eerie as hell, much like the shark's music

@fatovamingus

6 жыл бұрын

every composer was affected and inspired by this piece

@lordscrewtape2897

4 жыл бұрын

Just like " Mars" inspired" The Imperial March" and "Superman" owes more than a little to " Fanfare for the common man" John Williams only steals from the best😎

Peace Was Never An Option.

@fatovamingus

Жыл бұрын

Would have killed the ballet....wait. It WAS killed after 9 performances and then lost 75 years

I used to listen to this transfixed when I was 10 years old. 60 years later and I haven't changed. Now I can watch it.

@fatovamingus

4 жыл бұрын

me too.. I have fond memories of my father and the rite of spring. Always playing. or Zappa.

I like to listen to this to help me calm me down. Not lying.

@fatovamingus

Жыл бұрын

I like you.

@victorhernandez8723

7 ай бұрын

Odd choice of music, but whatever works.

@fatovamingus

5 ай бұрын

​@@victorhernandez8723agreed though" Spring Rounds" is one of the loveliest moments in the Rite... Sort of like the pas de deux from scenes de ballet?

Dancing along to this is a great work out.

@gothmedli

5 жыл бұрын

YES

A riot worthy ballet... I am not disappointed 👏

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

It is revolutionary even today. One of the students here said they should choreograph the riot and I couldn't agree more!

@rosaline7335

3 жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus that's actually a wonderful idea, they should definitely do it 🙏🙏

mom : go play with the neighbor's kids the neighbor's kids:

@kinghonored

3 жыл бұрын

lmaooooo what

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

Jimmy two times

I saw this in Vienna in 1987, almost by accident, and I'm so happy to be able to relive it here

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

I love this comment. I love it. Can you tell me more>

@glennwiltsee7405

3 жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus I was visiting my soon to be wife, who was on a scholarship in Vienna. I recall that it was March?, and we were looking for cultural things around the city, which as you may know, is a very easy task. I was a budding ballet fan, but didn't have in depth knowledge. We bought student rush tickets for the equivalent of 5 dollars, and sat almost at the top of the theater, but dead center. Though so many years ago, I recall the racing in my heart, and the tingling in my brain, seeing the primitivity of the movement and the pounding music.

I remember first learning about this in my music appreciate class. The second the choreography started I was hooked!

@JakesNotDrinking

8 жыл бұрын

+Freezie Pop Same with me. How peculiar.

@fatovamingus

8 жыл бұрын

+Freezie Pop There isn't a music major who studies the Rite that doesn't end up watching Nijinsky's masterpiece.

@tijuanaiguana190

8 жыл бұрын

AACC?

@Jh36578

8 жыл бұрын

+Freezie Pop The second the music started I was hooked!

@TheJYJb

8 жыл бұрын

+Freezie Pop Same here!

It’s a fantastically challenging ballet - not one to sit in the audience and drift off. I have so much respect for artists who try something different, knowing the people of their day may not like it but that future generations will see it for what it was- ahead of its time. It’s tense, anxiety-inducing and almost beastial. Love it.

@fatovamingus

6 жыл бұрын

I am right there with you

@fatovamingus

6 жыл бұрын

I love your comments! The story was based on receiving the gifts to the earth for the tribe each year and they would stamp the energy in for the earth to thrive for the year - but had to appease the sun god with a sacrifice. Who would dance herself to death for him in the last 5 minutes of the ballet. Wild

this scares me so much idk why

@fatovamingus

5 жыл бұрын

Because it's scary! This was the libretto :ancient Pagan Russia asking a sun god to rain energy to the Earth which they stomp into it so the crops will grow but of course you know how it is with sun gods - they want a virgin. So it's like the whole thing is working up to the very end : who's going to die! By jumping herself to death of 143 leaps in less than 5 minutes. But listen to the music I mean what the hell else could be done it had to be radical. Thank you for commenting please come back

I bet Stravinsky and Nijinsky would be amused (and a little sad) that even over 100 years later some people can't except this. If you don't like the music and dance, fair enough, it would be a boring world if we all liked the same. But Nijinsky's choreography (over a more "traditional" one) is awesome and flows with the music brilliantly. So glad the Joffrey went through the effort.

@fatovamingus

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly. THis was an event: the music, the libretto, Nijinsky's schizophrenia just breaking, right before WWI...this more than a breakthrough moment in music/dance. It was a marker in time.

@HerringSimon

7 жыл бұрын

It makes you wonder how Nijinsky might have choreographed a piece by Zappa.

@fatovamingus

7 жыл бұрын

If you listen to early Mothers like "Burnt Weenie Sandwich" (which has a song called "Igor's Boogie" btw) you can hear the influence Stravinsky had on Zappa. By the time Hot Rats came out though it wasn't that great.

@fatovamingus

7 жыл бұрын

Like this. This is all Stravinsky: kzread.info/dash/bejne/inmFxqyfqKucYso.html

@HerringSimon

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, great album. Although it was released around the same time as Hot Rats (just a few months after); which makes it interesting that you can hear Stravinsky in one but not much in the other. But then that's Zappa. He wrote/played what felt right to him at any particular time and some influences were more predominant as a result. Never static.

How many of y’all watching for homework?

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes how yes you guys are back! Every year the composition students are sent here to watch the ballet so that they can really get the full impact of what was happening that night and I have 10000 followers that are mostly music students and we have so much fun talking about this. So tell me what you you think about it

@longebane

2 жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus that's hilarious! am not a student. but this piece comes into my consciousness every couple years. I can never get into the actual ballet though. it makes me feel too ...weird- and detracts from my enjoyment of the piece (i'm aware this was originally written precisely for the ballet)

@masonfaucher6853

Жыл бұрын

me 😔

Just imagine sitting at the opera house in 1913, only used to balett and such, and see this.

@fatovamingus

6 жыл бұрын

Oh an absolute shock! They were not prepared for Stravinsky then the ballet began. I have a commentary here of Stravinsky's

This is the first time in Music History, Igor Stravinsky had used his expressionism to challenge artistic conventions and public tastes.

@fatovamingus

5 жыл бұрын

Going back over what comments KZread DIDN'T delete I find yours. This is like a sampler of 8 different symphonies. Act One is dizzying. Stravinsky was born to change the world.

Thank you for doing this! The Human race may not be perfect ...this shows that we always strived to a higher Plane of conscientiousness!

@fatovamingus

5 жыл бұрын

i love this comment. I may understand it or I may not but "we always strived" is never a bad sentiment! Thank you!

@donvasquez1791

5 жыл бұрын

I just love listening to it. It is the groundbreaker for all that followed. I just recently saw the dance part and it is just as moving as the music! 11th century life! Is that correct costumes?

初めて見た。こんなに音楽に合った踊りと思わなかった。

@fatovamingus

8 ай бұрын

Yes it does. Nijinsky followed Roerich's theme/scenario AND met Stravinsky's visionary piece

That's what I love so much about this "anti-ballet"....people who don't much of a taste for dance arts find themselves blown away by this. This is what breakthroughs in history do...they reach past their target audience and involve us all. Greetings from Boston!

Costumes, makeup, choreography, music, ballet storyline all FANTASTIQUE!

@fatovamingus

5 жыл бұрын

It is, You are so right. Dr. Archer was relentless in the pursuit of Roerich's sets and costumes. There is a short video about it on my channel,,,

This resurrection and preservation of an historical work is to be highly commended, as it speaks volumes to the cultural mileu of its origin. The reaction of the patronage world is also a very important story! It would be an excellent comparative study for today. Robert Joffrey was the modern link who reconnected the living memories of the original.

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

Based on this deep observation, I would be interested in your opinion on this piece from my blog: igorandmore.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-nijinsky-inheritance.html

@annak29

2 жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus Thank you very much, I will read.

3:00 Parisian ticket holders in 1913: Aight, imma storm the stage.

@fatovamingus

4 жыл бұрын

yes!

@fatovamingus

4 жыл бұрын

I had to pin this,

I got to see this live in Chicago in the 1980s. What a treat and a treasure.

@fatovamingus

5 жыл бұрын

How wonderful!! Did you see Carole Valleskey a the ChosenOne? I am told she was amazing.

@TheMary0831

5 жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus No.

As music and dance critic of The Milwaukee Journal, I attended the scholarly conference on the Rite reconstruction in Chicago -- I believe it was in the fall of 1987 -- the Joffrey Ballet's home. About 15 years of research went into the reconstruction of Nijinsky's 1913 ballet. They had the design drawings for the sets and costumes and reproduced them to the last details. They had the notebooks of Marie Rambert, who was Nijinsky's assistant during the creation of the work. I believe they had other idiosyncratic dance notations of the work at hand, as well as written accounts of Paris and London performances, along with dancer recollections. Lots of interviews were involved. The Chicago premiere was an electric event. The program included Bronislava Nijinska's "Les Noces," another "primitivist" ballet based on Russian folkways. (I like "Rite" a lot, but I think "Les Noces" -- "The Wedding" -- is the better dance.) And now, just in case other posters care to know what they're talking about, here's Jack Smith's informational advance story on The Joffrey's performance in New York, 1987: www.nytimes.com/1987/10/25/arts/the-joffrey-ballet-restores-nijinsky-s-rite-of-spring.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BE0.mYt6._MXMsv5Eqbvh&smid=url-share

@fatovamingus

7 ай бұрын

Thank you. You got nearly all of it right. Were Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer not as intent on recovering this ballet before its champion Robert Joffrey passed away, we would have to suffer the awful existing choreographies forever. They are too humble and magnanimous to agree with me on that and would likely give me a soft lecture. They say never meet your heroes but I disagree.

@tstrini1

7 ай бұрын

@@fatovamingus As you know, Stravinsky's music has been catnip for many choreographers. That will continue to be the case. I like Pina Bausch's take on it. Saw it in L.A. in 1984. kzread.info/dash/bejne/rGeqvMd6ncbQlpc.htmlsi=5HeJMLc0Qjx-OHbm

@fatovamingus

5 ай бұрын

@@tstrini1 I changed my notices on comments because I NEVER saw this! Am I a prude to dislike choreographies to this masterpiece that show tits or full nudity and nearly always a sexualization of the Glorification? I imagine that Stravinsky would not have liked it. It's pedestrian to me. So you have seen the "Four Variants" which is Nijinsky, Preljocaj, Bausch and Tero Saarinen... HE KILLED. Have you seen it? It is called Hunt and he did something pretty breakthrough at that time and I am so interested in knowing if you like it: he used a multimedia experiment where he is moving very little in places and light and imagery are projected on to him! The only other I like is from Heddy Maalem *Spring Rounds* kzread.info/dash/bejne/fHlny7OHgJvSfrQ.htmlsi=57vduts5yyN_ZYYb Please write - I would like to ask a question of two and see if you would write something for the ballet archive. thisisfatova at gmail

The music never fails to make me feel shitty and paranoid, which is impressive but also freaky

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

I sent that comment to Marie Stravinsky that's awesome

lol I remember having to play the famous bassoon solo at the very beginning for a college audition

@ionianmusic

6 жыл бұрын

did you make it in, the solo is rather impressive

@TheNativeEngine

5 жыл бұрын

He's been blowing Stravinsky ever since.

Image this ballet in 1913, when people expected ballets like Swanlake or the Nutcracker. With beautiful movements and pink tutu's. And then you get this ballet! AMAZING! I adore Diaghilev, Nijinsky & Stravinsky. This is what art is all about.

I love the fact that you continue discussing the ballet with such passion and enthusiasm for years! Thank you! (And I love this performance, well, that`s obvious)

@fatovamingus

5 жыл бұрын

You know i am so happy to read this but feel disappointed that I can not add more video....I wioll keep trying!!

The fact that Stravinsky died only 16 years before this is wild.

@fatovamingus

5 ай бұрын

I apologize for the delay KZread has an issue with me and I never get my notifications. And I want you to know it took me almost 16 years to figure out what you meant with this comment. I had to get out my Abacus and figure it out but now I get it and it is something isn't it

I came here to see all the hub-bub because of NPR. They talked about this Ballet and the Riot of 1913 and they did a neurologcal study about sound as touch. There were also several other interesting articles on their site about this piece of work which got me curious about the dancing as much as the music so I needed to find one that did not have any other interpretation to the work other than Nijinsky and Stravinsky. Frankly, I enjoyed it. Joffrey's a good man for having preserved the work as best as he could, we are more enlightened for it . . . . (looks at other comments) well, almost everyone. :)

This piece brought me to tears as well. My sides are still in orbit!

@fatovamingus

5 жыл бұрын

such a passionate comment I love it.

My music teacher showed up this and it's so cool

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

IK am SO happy to hear it. Remember this is only one of 3 pieces...I uploaded back when 10 minutes increments was all you could do!~

Joffrey's is the one to see. When they did the recreation there were still people around who had seen the 1913 version and could help with the look and the choreography. Thrilling!

I can see why this would cause a riot

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

Couple of years ago this kid commented that they need to do a reconstruction on the riot. Which would really be more of a comedy if you think about it

I have been reading about this reconstruction of the original choreography and am so happy to see that you've posted this. Thank you so much!

Thanks for the uploads

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

What do you think of it what strikes you the most and are you here for music class

The Rite of Spring is one of the greatest compositions ever made. It will probably trascend humanity.

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aqR3pdejeJXeY9o.html. I threw this together a while back but it's full of Stravinsky's explanation of how he was a vessel that received this music because nothing had been written that could guide him. It's it actually gives you goosebumps it's that good

@dejiko

3 жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus Fasciinating, thanks for sharing. I'll make sure to check it out.

Watching this for music class.. the dancing got me in tears..Lmao

@Fizzwizbizz

8 жыл бұрын

no surprise

@fatovamingus

8 жыл бұрын

When I read things like this - that someone understood the emotion, the risk, the darkness of this choreography I feel like I am seeing it for the first time through your eyes. It is very uplifting for me. Keep watching, keep writing to me.

@Fizzwizbizz

8 жыл бұрын

+Fatova Mingus lmao i think one of the beauty of "classical" music and choregraphy is that not everyone can understand them.

@zoeybatterup152

7 жыл бұрын

My guitar teacher was telling the story of this and his description if the ballerinas had me in tears

@lynnquette

7 жыл бұрын

+Fatova Mingus I think he's in tears because he's laughing.

I've watched this performance several times now and each time I am overwhelmed by how powerful and beautiful this piece really is. Thank you again for sharing.

Fantastic Stravinsky and magical dancing,such colour.

This was the example my music theory 2 teacher showed us as an example of discordant harmony.

I’ve listened to the rite of spring and have even watched clips of the ballet, but for some reason this time around I feel so infuriated and explosive. I guess this piece and art has such tremendous power as to literally push something in my brain to make me feel like a savage.

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

I like this comment - it is a revelation nearly everyone who posts on this 3-part video can agree on. It's Stravinsky. The Rite is at times too frenetic! It is a like a man who hits you then brings you chocolate. And here is Nijinsky staying in pace while staying with the scenario. Example: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dZNr0Maql9rek7A.html

@adonaiyah2196

Жыл бұрын

This is why there wad riots when it premiered

My God! How tragic it would have been to have lost this singular work forever! If it continues to shock us in 2012, can one imagine its impact in 1913? I'd like to think that had I been there, I would have been on my feet shouting 'bravo' and 'brilliant' when it concluded, and not one of the lemmings running out in dismay and disgust!

Thank you for posting this. Need to watch this a few more times as l find the choreography very interesting and full of emotions.

My music teacher showed us this and I loved it! Has a unique vibe and feeling.

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

So you are a music major who was forced to watch the ballet in the process of your rite of spring course? Because that's pretty much all that happens here and I love it

@TGWNN.

2 жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus pretty much 😂

Love this choreography, goes so well with the composition. I would love to see this in person.

@fatovamingus

4 жыл бұрын

It is a difficult production 52 dancers, 101 musicians. Russia does it on the regular. Keep your eyes open....

@fatovamingus

4 жыл бұрын

I do not know where you are but I am going to see if the Joffrey will tour. it will be recorded music but that first half is spell bindingn

@oscarresendiz3014

4 жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus Great i will look into it. I live in Central Texas, What about you?

@fatovamingus

4 жыл бұрын

@@oscarresendiz3014 Northeast . Tell Beto I said hi # Beto2024

Thanks for posting this clearer version

Wonderful. Spine-tingling. A window to the ballet past we all hold so dear, and also to the choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky, rightly beloved and mourned to this day. His genius will never die. His loss was a grievous one, and the loss of ballet and all he knew a far greater loss to the man himself, when he fell ill. Thank you for this! Thank you so much.

I knew this music sounded to familiar I’m now remeber if that it’s the dinosaurs from Fantasia but I’m low key in love w/this

Wonderful

thank you so much for this clear picture version! I've never seen it with this clarity, even in the DVD and old VHS version that I had. great to see the costumes and movements with such clarity.

This is fantastic. I thought I'll never see a version like this; so raw, atractive and harsh. thanks for the upload!

A Masterpiece 🤍🤍🥰😍

Is there any information on how they reconstructed the choreography? That's something that would be very interesting to read about. Did Nijinsky document the choreography some way? Thank you!

@fatovamingus

8 жыл бұрын

+Podcastage There is a document in 3 parts on my page. I forget what it's called but it is under the "Le Sacre du Printemps" category.

@fatovamingus

7 жыл бұрын

Did no one answer this question?? I apologize. Millicent Hodson and kenneth Archer reconstructed. Best place to start awesome video done on the heels of the 1987 debut, kzread.info/dash/bejne/nmyIs6pmZbnYmM4.html and also there is a ton of stuff in my "Le Sacre du Printemps" channel with interviews.

Thanks i like this so much

love it ~! thanks~!!

I was shocked but still excited when I first watched this in junior high.

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

It is just epic and there is no way to see this without remembering it

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

Why did you watch this in junior high, just curious

@luoshatumi

2 жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus music class

0:01 Space. The Earth is formed. 3:01 Volcanos. Lava everywhere. 6:12 Waters rising. 8:02 Life is formed in the waters.

@shimmereyes8984

2 жыл бұрын

Accurate pin point of Fantasia's timestamps. There were some parts trimmed to fit the narrative but it's almost the same.

@jenniferschillig3768

2 жыл бұрын

@@shimmereyes8984 Originally, the piece was supposed to end with the dawn of Man and humanity's discovery of fire--I guess that last trill in the woodwinds would have been a burst of flame, with a tribe surrounding it. But Walt was afraid creationists would squawk about it, so he ended it with the extinction of the dinosaurs and the stage being set for the next phase. This meant they had to cut the last bit of the original music and cut-and-paste the oboe phrase from the beginning in.

Hey, what a wonderful discovery ! Many thanks !

Thank you! I saw this production at the Kennedy Center 25 years ago. Brings back fond memories.

Finally ! Music to my ears.

@fatovamingus

10 ай бұрын

And eyes. And mind.

nightmare fuel

just saw it tonight, worth every penny !

Absolutely! I agree. This work can take a wee while to get into but it is worth persevering and watching many times as it becomes more and more compelling. Soon the viewer comes to LOVE that initially-maddening and confusing Stravinsky score. This ballet was way ahead of its time, as was all Nijinsky's choreography, whether it was hit or miss with contempory audiences.

I saw a revival of this a few years ago in Chicago by the Joffrey and it was mesmerizing to see in person. I believe the costumes and dancing were recreations of the original ROS that was based on a research for a doctoral thesis many years earlier. Amazingly, there exists quite a lot of detailed information from various sources about the actual performance and reviews in the papers, in addition to notes and sketches from Stravinsky himself and other contemporaries.

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

There are a lot of different stories if Robert Kraft is doing any of the talking you should disregard it. I personally like this one because it's full of facts the real people it's kind of entertaining and I made it. It also gets into great wild detail of how dr. Kenneth Archer counted every Circle and square on the costumes to make sure they were accurate I mean who does that? kzread.info/dash/bejne/aqR3pdejeJXeY9o.html

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like I missed so many comments. Because there was a second version of this ballet created after Nijinsky was booted because he stopped having sex with Diaghilev, there were two set designs two separate costumes and Dr Kenneth Archer spent 10 years counting circles and squares on these costumes to make sure he got it right. I can't think of anything more tedious than that but thank God somebody found it valuable.

the makeup here is fantastic!

@shin-i-chikozima

6 жыл бұрын

Hanna Utkin 美人だね‼️元気かな❓Ravishing and luscious！ vigorous？

This looks great!

Ok, never been into ballet nor been willing to watch any on tv, but after watching this It just "STUNNED" me, really !! Amazing !! Had to watch "riot at the rite" the tv movie version right after, couldn't get enough of it.

Might I just give a shout-out to the absolutely incredible costuming and face-painting work that just adds so much to creating this scene? I've always loved the music, and the choreography is great of course, but the costumes do more to set the scene than anything else.

@fatovamingus

7 жыл бұрын

I think Mr. Archer would concur and google it. You'll find that Hodson and Archer excavated this right down to the last braid.

@roncooney3623

5 жыл бұрын

Please don't say shout out ever. It's a phrase for dipshits.

I'm here because last night my dance school did their version of Rite of Spring and I was in it :). It was so cool

@fatovamingus

6 жыл бұрын

Silvermoon Therian that is great to hear! How do you feel seeing this, the original?

@thekitchenfloor8360

6 жыл бұрын

Fatova Mingus the costumes and makeup are definitely different than the one I did and so was the dance in some parts

@fatovamingus

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe you will post us a photo??

I fell in love with this music when I was just a kid and heard it in Fantasia. Since then, I have only grown to love it more.

This is my favorite ballet!!!!

@fatovamingus

6 жыл бұрын

Dark Static I feel that it is the Hallmark of creative ballet or creativity in performance even! I'm so happy to see that you feel the same way

I commented this on a different video, and for posterity, I will comment it here too. I still see dinosaurs. This was always my favorite part of Fantasia.

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

Ok guess what...I never saw Fantasia. I think maybe there was some acid involved with my 15 year old friends?

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

Still haven't seen it

Imagine what the Parisian audience thought at the premier back in 1913. After all, the Parisians were the most sophisticated people in the world. They had purchased expensive tickets to see the fabulous Ballet Rousse, expecting to see something like Giselle, Coppelia or Swan Lake, and instead got this. No wonder it sparked a riot!

@fatovamingus

5 жыл бұрын

They are sheep with a lot of money and fabulous clothes. How they managed to love Nijinsky after "l'apre midi d'un faune us anyone's guess. I love a good ballet anarchy.

@jenniferschillig3768

4 жыл бұрын

The title probably didn't help. I mean, if you were one of those Parisians, and you saw the title "The Rite of Spring," your mind would probably conjure up beautiful woodland glades, forest nymphs in wreaths of flowers and flowing tutus dancing prettily and gracefully to celebrate spring...and what you got instead was THIS...

im full blooded native american, and i am taking a music course in college, and stravinsky is one of the famous music inspirations we studied, and once i saw this, i thought it was absolutely marvelous, im suppose to be on christmas vacation but im baffled, and am determined to finish this entire ballet!!!

Happy 100th Anniversary, you big beautiful beast of a ballet.

This looks like a cartoon... makes theory homework bearable for long periods now. 😅 Great job on this

@fatovamingus

2 жыл бұрын

Theory students were not being forced to watch this until 2012-ish. And you can see in the early comments how freaked out it made them. I love you guys

I’ve always heard how weird this ballet was. I am not disappointed. I’m lovin’ it though.

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

Really? I love hearing this! You know I left the performance the first time - I did not stick around for the cllimax: the chosen one. Sensory overload from this first part.

@Paintergrl1313

3 жыл бұрын

Fatova Mingus I think its more that I love that it lived up to the weirdness described to me. I can definitely understand walking out and how shocking this must have been at its debut.

@fatovamingus

3 жыл бұрын

@@Paintergrl1313 One of the students last year commented "when are they going to choreograph the riot?"

lovely and fantastic

Este BALLET me SUBYUGA, me HIPNOTIZA, me FASCINA !!! MARAVILLA de Joffrey Ballet. Igor Stravinsky y Vaslav Nijinsky GENIOS !!! MGRACIAS x compartir ARTE

Absolutely incredible. Every other version of this ballet is inferior to me.

@fatovamingus

Жыл бұрын

Yes! This was the first performance in 70 years.... They had nothing to go by no video just their own raw emotion and commitment to the story and you can see it! I love your comment!

@hk6970

Жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus indeed, i sometimes accidentally watch Macmillan's god awful version then i watch this again to cleanse my pallet.

@fatovamingus

Жыл бұрын

@@hk6970 one of the women that danced The Chosen One in this masterpiece- her name is Zenaida Zanowsky - she chose to do that MacMillan shit show for her retirement.

@hk6970

Жыл бұрын

@@fatovamingus No way, how could she be so tasteless? If I were a ballerina and performed the MacMillan Ballet, I would have hide it like a sin lol. I mean there are many unoriginal bland versions of Rite of Spring out there, but the MacMillan takes the cake for the ugliest one. (At least of all the ones I have seen) All this versions prove Nijinsky was truly a visionary and can't be topped even after all this years imo.

@fatovamingus

Жыл бұрын

@@hk6970 we need to have a drink and talk smack about all of this someday

This piece is so awesome. Show this to any metal head who wants to appreciate classical music. Tell them to try and feel / predict the rhythms.

@fatovamingus

Ай бұрын

I think there's over 400 time signature changes. Zappa wrote a few songs that was spins on different Stravinsky pieces. Check out my videos "let's talk Le Sacre". It's my first time doing videos after 15 years on this channel and for some reason I'm self-conscious which is fucked up but I am.

@michaeld.mcclish

Ай бұрын

@@fatovamingus In my college days, my conducting instructor related a story that I think was about The Rite, he said that when Stravinsky escaped Russia, he had to rewrite all his pieces, and he admitted that he wrote the Rite too complicated. I'm not sure if it was the Rite or Firebird.

@fatovamingus

Ай бұрын

@@michaeld.mcclish I wrote a great response to this and then it was gone. Essentially he wrote the Firebird in 1908 in Russia for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes and went to Paris to see it in 1910. Then he never went back choosing Switzerland and Paris during the Revolution and after the war broke out. I have almost whatever you could learn on him in Vimeo. Here, it is little pieces for good reason. Have you watched my "Lets Talk Le Sacre"??

Wonderful!

It’s soo eerie and that’s why I love it

@fatovamingus

5 жыл бұрын

it is very dark. the libretto is really horrific. i still can not believe Nijinsky, Stravinsky and Roerich created this.