Joffrey Ballet 1987 Rite of Spring (3 of 3)

Every day you are here, the ballet remains on stage. DID YOU KNOW I POSTED THE WHOLE BALLET AT Part 3 of 3: Divining the Sacrificed, ritualizing her, forcing her to kill herself in what is surely the most avoided solo by those who have skated past such monstrous moments: the Danse Sacrale. The “Chosen One“ is danced for the first time since the tragic 1913 debut by Beatriz Rodriguez who pulls on her own internal fear to present this to us. This dancer was experiencing her own rawness as there was no template that she could mimmic. SHE would BECOME the template. MINUTE 3:23 is Stravinsky’s finest explosion of ACT 2. And after these long 10 minutes, the Chosen One dances herself to death so that the tribe will survive another year as the deal was struck with the sun god Jarillo. As it always was. This choreography was almost lost forever, but thanks to the efforts of Millicent Hodson, Kenneth Archer and Robert Joffrey this history making, groundbre