One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...

The Russian-born composer, conductor and pianist Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) remains, five decades after his death, a towering figure in 20th century music. If he had written the music for only one ...

In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

The Pennsylvania Ballet is celebrating the works of a legendary Russian-born pianist and composer with a program called All Stravinsky. It includes four diverse works set to the music of a man ...

Experience the magic of three great Stravinsky ballets with David Robertson and the SSO "...the separation of the words 'music' and 'dance' is one that a number of cultures see as artificial." ...

Choreographer Stephanie Martinez is a chameleon. She spent much of her performance career at River North Dance Chicago, and upon retirement began creating dances for contemporary and hip-hop companies ...

It was a legendary collaboration, but they could not have known it then: a young composer named Igor Stravinsky (shown here, in 1952) was hired by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the famed ...

For Igor Stravinsky's 125th birthday, Pacific Northwest Ballet kicks off a two-week celebration with the PNB orchestra playing his Greeting Prelude. It's a 50-second take on "Happy Birthday!" written ...