"Great Horizons Flooded with the Alien Light of the Sun" : Le Sacre du Printemps in the Russian context
Järvinen, Hanna (2013)
Järvinen, Hanna
2013
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Dance Research 31:1, Summer 2013. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.3366/drs.2013.0057
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Even a century after the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps, Russian contemporary sources offer a wealth of material on the Ballets Russes and particularly on Nijinsky's 1913 choreography that are rarely read and never really analyzed in detail. This paper will give an overview of some of these sources and their varied but generally positive discussion on Nijinsky's work in order to argue that these informed Russian spectators perceived
Sacre in a manner that contests how this work has been represented in dance history.
Sacre in a manner that contests how this work has been represented in dance history.