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Season Premiere

Great Performances: Season 17

17x01 Dance in America: The Search for Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring
TV-PG

  • 1989-11-25T02:00:00Z on PBS
  • 2h 12m
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Documentary, Drama
A documentary on Millicent Hodson's and Kenneth Archer's attempts to recreate the original choreography by Vasclav Nijinsky and original sets and costumes by Nicholas Roerich for the original production in 1913 of Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The rite of spring. The full reconstructed ballet, Sacre du printemps = The rite of spring : pictures of pagan Russia in two acts (Joffrey Ballet ; Orchestra of the National Theatre, Prague ; Allan Lewis, conductor) follows the documentary.
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