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performance length: 60 min
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When the famous ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev asked Stravinsky, who was playing The Rite of Spring for him for the first time on piano, “How much longer will it go on like that?” Stravinsky cordially replied, “Until the end, my dear fellow.”
When asked what he most recalled from his childhood in Russia, Stravinsky answered, “Spring, which in Russia comes very sharply, suddenly, and powerfully. It erupts in perhaps an hour and it sounds as if the whole world is cracking.” Spring begins the same way in Finland where the collaborator with Handa Gote, musician and performer Pasi Mäkelä is from.
The music of Igor Stravinsky’s work and the choreography for it by Vaslav Nijinsky from 1913 are the group’s inspiration.
Handa Gote approaches The Rite of Spring as a performance on the borders of ritual, concert, dance, ballet, and opera.
When asked what he most recalled from his childhood in Russia, Stravinsky answered, “Spring, which in Russia comes very sharply, suddenly, and powerfully. It erupts in perhaps an hour and it sounds as if the whole world is cracking.” Spring begins the same way in Finland where the collaborator with Handa Gote, musician and performer Pasi Mäkelä is from.
The music of Igor Stravinsky’s work and the choreography for it by Vaslav Nijinsky from 1913 are the group’s inspiration.
Handa Gote approaches The Rite of Spring as a performance on the borders of ritual, concert, dance, ballet, and opera.
Supported by / thanks to:
The Forman Brother's Theatre, Matěj Forman, Studio Truhlárna, the Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic; the City of Prague.
The Forman Brother's Theatre, Matěj Forman, Studio Truhlárna, the Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic; the City of Prague.
