Paul Taylor Dance Company

LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS (THE REHEARSAL)

Opus Number: 
72
Music: 
Igor Stravinsky (arrangement for piano)
Set and Costumes: 
John Rawlings
Lighting: 
Jennifer Tipton
Date First Performed: 
January 15, 1980
Notes: 

“It takes a genius to upstage another genius, and that's just about what Paul Taylor accomplished in his deliciously berserk dance version of Igor Stravinsky's hallowed, epoch-making score… Taylor uses this musical masterpiece as if it were simply a fiendishly interesting piece of music... in devising a dance charade of ever so brittle, arch and waspish humor.” – Alan M. Kriegsman, Washington Post        

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Photos: Paul B. Goode