this is so chilling. i love the fact nijinski avoided using any more extended movements until she grew more agitated and towards the end as she dances herself closer and closer to death... the inclusion of those leaps turning from stage right to left etc .
Also her facial expression remains blank the whole time. It just adds to the unsettling effect, the uncanniness. Nijinsky was adamant that the dancers should have been emotionless while performing, no fear pantomiming etc.
While her arms were swaying around, they looked like they were very loose and about to fly off. Igor Stravinsky knows how to create such terrifying music, and whoever came up with the choreography knew what they were doing. Very scary dance, but very well done.
@@JohnJApanovitch It's fantastic indeed! I recommend watching the full ballet from the Joffrey Ballet (1987). It's here on youtube, and it's only 40 minutes long (compared to other ballets that last 90 minutes more or less).
When I was younger when I first heard this I did not learn how to understand this. I thought it was weird, and I didn't want to appreciate it. Only until now, studying it in orchestration class do I really appreciate what a marvel this piece really is. truly a masterpiece. BRAVO STRAVINSKY!
Pietragalla is phenomenal! I get feverish watching this because of how I feel watching her dance and fear for The One, dancing to her death. If I could dance a fraction of this as even half-decently, I’d be grateful!
OMG! Where’s the rest of this? This is out of this world. Just Incredible. Amazing and wonderful dancer. Nothing beats Nijinsky for his choreography. Words cannot approach what this conveys. Thank you, again and again and again for creating it anew. And thank you for posting. Much appreciated.
Stravinsky-The Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance. -Starts with String sound like violine. (Angurs of Spring-Starts with woodwinds sound, Dance of Adolescents-Starts with percussion like sound. ) -Genre: Anti-classical ballet -Irregular rhythm. -Shows ancient russian culture -Rondo Form: ABACA’' -Telltale phrase ending of three descending notes. -Jarring rhythms with disonant harmony. -DIversified beats and rhythms.
This girl must have a very good physical constitution to not stop and endure all this choreography. Compared to other choreographies this one is suffocating. They are trained for it, but still. Great physical strength
To all who think Pietragalla is less than awe-inspiring here: You're demonstrating the problem with dropping the acculturated trappings and manners of ballet to utterly inhabit the wildness of such a character (rather than skillfully and tastefully *depicting* that wildness, as seen in the Joffrey version): the dancers, critics, and audiences who inhabit the ecosystem of acculturation will icily insist that *she's doing it wrong*. There is no trace, no whiff, of wasp-waisted lady in leotard at the barre in Paris starchily plying her dainty pliés with perfectly tight hair bun and haughty countenance. Gone. Wiped clean. Here, instead, is a pagan primordial presence from the ancient Russian woods. The actual thing. And these f-ing people want their starchy French lady.
I've grown to love the music of this tremendous work over the years and listen to it again and again. This particular film is from the reconstruction of Nijinsky's choreography with Diaghilev's costumes which was broadcast as a TV documentary. It was absolutely superb and I was delighted to find this extract here. Thank you for sharing it.
I love how as the movements get bigger and wider it shows more of the underdress and makes it look like she's bleeding from the arms. Chilling, amazing performance. I feel like I were to try it I'd logit die xD
AMAZING BRILLIANT TALENT, CREATIVITY, THE GREAT COMPOSER'S ALWAYS HAD THESE MIRACLES INSIDE THEIR SOUL'S AND MIND'S...MUCH LIKE LENNON MCCARTNEY, BACHRACH DAVID, JAGGER RICHARDS, LIEBER STOLER, ET AL
Milan Kundera writes in an essay from ‘Betrayed Legacies’: ‘Stravinsky gives the barbaric rite a strong, convincing musical form, but one that does not lie: ...’ The sacrificial dance is a synonym for the knowing powerlessness of being at the mercy of the forces of nature. This is a golden piece of the puzzle - „Le sacre du printemps, danse sacrale“. Is an accompanying song in “We lost”. FOLLOW ME, boys and girls! Solve the RIDDLE! „… Irene hears from the open side window of the car that Chrissie has turned up the radio. She hears that it's the culture station. She hears the announcement, hears ...Stravinsky, hears le sacre du printemps, danse sacrale. The first bars sound. Suddenly it is resoundingly loud. Chrissie has turned the radio up to full volume. It's Chrissie's anger. She has to get out too. Irene walks towards the bridge ramp, the pounding of the music accompanying her for a long time. She hears the sharp cresendos of the orchestra and the rhythmically striking thirds of the timpani. The sacrifice of spring. Spring sacrifice - us? …“ Chapter before: Elton John - Tiny dancer czcams.com/video/yYcyacLRPNs/video.html Chapter after: Bastille - Pompeii czcams.com/video/F90Cw4l-8NY/video.html
You have to be on drugs to think that using those obnoxious time signatures that change every measure is okay for the mental stability of the musicians.
1. My teacher made me watch this at school. we were screaming 2. go to 1:40 and put it on speed x2 3. this person is an amazing dancer but its just a little creepy 4. This is the only ballet in history when a fight broke out after wards
the man himself said this dream came to him "to write a piece about a solemn pagan ritual. Sage elders seated in a circle, watching a young girl dance herself to death. They are sacrificing her to propitiate the God of Spring" although many different interpretations have been made of the original brief such as it being a virgin, the dress being red etc. Found out about this from the Album 'End On End' which is good too
Sun God Jarillo wants a virgin in exchange for a year of yeilding crops etc...but there is a twist. Jarillo wants her to kill herself for hi,,,,see for yearself from the man who knows: czcams.com/video/8pCCujH2x3w/video.html
Connie Zhou Stravinsky was fascinated with Russia's roots. This ballet is supposed to be an account of the process of choosing a virgin to sacrifice for successful crops. In the ballet, the virgin literally dances herself to death in sacrifice.
Irina Nijinska disagreed with this reconstruction, as it was based on Southwest American Indian dancing, which had nothing to do with Scythian dancing at all. It went against the Nijinsky family school of choreography. She told me herself.
none yeah, you sound absolutely ridiculous, 🤦🏼♀️if you look at the original pictures/artwork from the 1913 show, the costumes are almost exact. So you are either lying for some weird CZcams comment section clout or Nijinsky was so old when she spoke to you she was probably suffering from dementia. They recreated everything, even the old choreography 🙄😂
To be honest, this video shows just how primitive, savage, and backward paganism is by nature with its demand for human sacrificing. Although I usually think of dinosaurs when listening to the Rite of Spring.
+Chuck E. Jesus Oh, and Stravinsky himself LOATHED what Disney did with the dinosaurs, especially with Stokowsky "arranging" his music. Stravinsky described the resulting performance as "execrable."
+Chuck E. Jesus And I heard that what you said about Jesus being sacrificed by his followers is false. Fact is that it was the Romans who crucified him, executing him for supposedly "disturbing" the peace in the Empire. His followers were weeping over his death, not celebrating it. Just because the Bible shows people sacrificing themselves in the Old Testament doesn't mean that the Bible promotes human sacrifice. In fact, Christianity, Roman Catholicism especially, is abhorrent towards that kind of backward pagan thinking. So what if Stravinsky loathed what Disney did? You ought to respect people with different beliefs before you get your fascist Dawkinite skull bashed by an angry mob of people that you enjoy taunting on.
+Jill -- your crazy orchestra teacher did you a big favor. One day, I hope, you will appreciate that introduction to a broader artistic awareness. I have no idea what your idea of normalcy is but if you are a typical American it has been heavily subsidized by corporate interests who rely on formulaic ideas that are fed to the public with little danger of losing their consumer base. ($$$$)
@@morinomajou My reference is not to other artistic pieces of verifiable merit (Firebird being another) but to popular entertainment that requires no effort to consume (the same principle behind junk food). I made no comment about "dark and edgy" content of art being more worthy of our attention. You did. I also did not say that "light and pretty" things are fluff. You did. As you may have noticed, not everything that comes to a theater or is shown on TV is worth the time devoted to watching it. The distinction I am making concerns extending the range of valuable experiences that young people encounter.
It makes more sense when you see the whole ballet. This fragment is at the end. A group of maiden dances in circle, and the one who falls down first is the "chosen one". That chosen one has to dance to the death, otherwise the tribe will not survive. The elders or maidens would surround the chosen one, so she cannot escape alive.
The idea of this scene was for her to quite literally: “Dance herself to death.”
Kind of a bummer to see how many negative comments are on her. She’s a fantastic dancer and nails the choreography. Emotional yet constrained.
In a way, that’s history repeating itself. Did ya know this ballet caused a riot when they first showed it in Paris in 1913?
Yes this is the best rendition of this choreography I’ve seen she’s amazing
Yeah it was meant to be like this. And she delivered, flawlessly.
I didn’t see any negative commenrs
this is so chilling. i love the fact nijinski avoided using any more extended movements until she grew more agitated and towards the end as she dances herself closer and closer to death... the inclusion of those leaps turning from stage right to left etc .
And doesn’t go en pointe until SHE DIES WOW
Also her facial expression remains blank the whole time. It just adds to the unsettling effect, the uncanniness. Nijinsky was adamant that the dancers should have been emotionless while performing, no fear pantomiming etc.
Also the progression of how violently her arms swing in a circle: from 2:07 to 3:31 to 3:43
While her arms were swaying around, they looked like they were very loose and about to fly off. Igor Stravinsky knows how to create such terrifying music, and whoever came up with the choreography knew what they were doing. Very scary dance, but very well done.
Nijinsky came up with the choreography.
@@navana789 Oh, gotcha. Well, he did an amazing job with putting that together.
@@JohnJApanovitch It's fantastic indeed! I recommend watching the full ballet from the Joffrey Ballet (1987). It's here on youtube, and it's only 40 minutes long (compared to other ballets that last 90 minutes more or less).
choreography by Vaslav Nijnsky
The most scary part of this video is the fact that it is in 144p
Isaac Liu lmao
Stfu
Stop it at 144 likes
@@hscutenako3029 is still
@@killthepandas. no
I wonder how much Stravinsky influenced film scoring. Every film score sounds like this.
A lot!
How did Holst influence heavy metal
Sooooo much. I’m actually in a class exploring that exact topic right now
when I watched this video for my music appreciation class all I could think about was how much it reminded me of scores from yorgos lanthimos' films
This is creepy as heck but very interesting. It's pushing the boundaries of performance art, especially of ballet, to its limit.
When I was younger when I first heard this I did not learn how to understand this. I thought it was weird, and I didn't want to appreciate it. Only until now, studying it in orchestration class do I really appreciate what a marvel this piece really is. truly a masterpiece. BRAVO STRAVINSKY!
I didn't blink the whole time I was watching her - that's how mesmerizing she is.
the dance is kinda creepy but the dance flows nice and goes along good with the music
Along with the makeup and how the head is slightly tilted for some parts
I think this is the most realistic performance of the Rite of Spring
The amount of stamina to do this-
*DANCE DANCE TILL YOU’RE DEAD*
Stravinsky was ahead of his time, wasn't he
And Nijinsky as well.
Pietragalla is phenomenal! I get feverish watching this because of how I feel watching her dance and fear for The One, dancing to her death. If I could dance a fraction of this as even half-decently, I’d be grateful!
I have watched many dancers perform the death dance and this dancer is my favorite.
I have no idea wtf is going on but this is in one of my audition excerpts and what has been seen cannot be unseen
In the story, she's a human sacrifice and is being made to dance herself to death. That's why it's so disturbing!
She danced beautifully, bravo!
OMG! Where’s the rest of this? This is out of this world. Just Incredible. Amazing and wonderful dancer. Nothing beats Nijinsky for his choreography. Words cannot approach what this conveys. Thank you, again and again and again for creating it anew. And thank you for posting. Much appreciated.
It is from The Four Variants which was 4 choreographies. Here is the full ballet first performance since 1913:
czcams.com/video/dsEkPdK8FVw/video.html
Years go by, this is still one of my favourite live performances. It’s perfect.
Stravinsky-The Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance.
-Starts with String sound like violine. (Angurs of Spring-Starts with woodwinds sound, Dance of Adolescents-Starts with percussion like sound. )
-Genre: Anti-classical ballet
-Irregular rhythm.
-Shows ancient russian culture
-Rondo Form: ABACA’'
-Telltale phrase ending of three descending notes.
-Jarring rhythms with disonant harmony.
-DIversified beats and rhythms.
People in the comments don’t realize how hard this dance actually is
Yep only 62 dancers!
This girl must have a very good physical constitution to not stop and endure all this choreography.
Compared to other choreographies this one is suffocating. They are trained for it, but still. Great physical strength
4:23 I don’t know if that’s the intention but it looks like she’s spitting out blood
I thought she was trying to get her heart arrhythmia back on track...
Very cool observation. Thank you, sir, for sharing
To all who think Pietragalla is less than awe-inspiring here:
You're demonstrating the problem with dropping the acculturated trappings and manners of ballet to utterly inhabit the wildness of such a character (rather than skillfully and tastefully *depicting* that wildness, as seen in the Joffrey version): the dancers, critics, and audiences who inhabit the ecosystem of acculturation will icily insist that *she's doing it wrong*.
There is no trace, no whiff, of wasp-waisted lady in leotard at the barre in Paris starchily plying her dainty pliés with perfectly tight hair bun and haughty countenance. Gone. Wiped clean. Here, instead, is a pagan primordial presence from the ancient Russian woods. The actual thing.
And these f-ing people want their starchy French lady.
ahh love this, dancer has great musicality and the piece is played nice and slow
I've grown to love the music of this tremendous work over the years and listen to it again and again. This particular film is from the reconstruction of Nijinsky's choreography with Diaghilev's costumes which was broadcast as a TV documentary. It was absolutely superb and I was delighted to find this extract here. Thank you for sharing it.
I love how as the movements get bigger and wider it shows more of the underdress and makes it look like she's bleeding from the arms. Chilling, amazing performance. I feel like I were to try it I'd logit die xD
THATS PERFECT! REALLY PERFECT OMG!!!!!
This is my favourite rendition. I have chills. This is eerie and absurdly powerful. This is unmatched.
AMAZING BRILLIANT TALENT, CREATIVITY, THE GREAT COMPOSER'S ALWAYS HAD THESE MIRACLES INSIDE THEIR SOUL'S AND MIND'S...MUCH LIKE LENNON MCCARTNEY, BACHRACH DAVID,
JAGGER RICHARDS, LIEBER STOLER, ET AL
Those psychological thrillers from the 50’s certainly were influenced by Stravinsky. Psycho anyone?
My music teacher showed this to me
You should have thanked him 100 times.
Sameee and the whole class laughed
I wanted to watch this for fun; for grade nine music theory you need to know the first part only
Excellent dancer!
This is brilliant
Milan Kundera writes in an essay from ‘Betrayed Legacies’: ‘Stravinsky gives the barbaric rite a strong, convincing musical form, but one that does not lie: ...’
The sacrificial dance is a synonym for the knowing powerlessness of being at the mercy of the forces of nature. This is a golden piece of the puzzle - „Le sacre du printemps, danse sacrale“.
Is an accompanying song in “We lost”.
FOLLOW ME, boys and girls! Solve the RIDDLE!
„… Irene hears from the open side window of the car that Chrissie has turned up the radio. She hears that it's the culture station. She hears the announcement, hears ...Stravinsky, hears le sacre du printemps, danse sacrale. The first bars sound. Suddenly it is resoundingly loud. Chrissie has turned the radio up to full volume. It's Chrissie's anger. She has to get out too.
Irene walks towards the bridge ramp, the pounding of the music accompanying her for a long time. She hears the sharp cresendos of the orchestra and the rhythmically striking thirds of the timpani. The sacrifice of spring. Spring sacrifice - us? …“
Chapter before: Elton John - Tiny dancer czcams.com/video/yYcyacLRPNs/video.html
Chapter after: Bastille - Pompeii czcams.com/video/F90Cw4l-8NY/video.html
4:52
D.
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D.
I tried dancing the first few steps of this and I literally almost broke my neck :o now I might have torn a part of my traps and my neck is sore AF
My dramatic ass after dancing
Fantastic dancing...
There’s a riot going on outside the theater. Again.
Wonderful.
10/10 brutal breakdown
What drugs were Stravinsky doing?
He didn't design the choreography...
@@interrexclamacion But he did write the equally insane music
You have to be on drugs to think that using those obnoxious time signatures that change every measure is okay for the mental stability of the musicians.
@@charleyhibschweiler4555 I play drum so I don't have to worry about rhythm, I got that on lock.
@@interrexclamacion are you sure about that?
quien escuchando esta joya en 2023?
LOVE IT !!!
our teacher made us watch this at school.
We were screaming!
Maravilhoso!
Ducking terrifying.
He did atonality the right way. Often it seems like atonal music was lazily made, but not in his case.
it gave me nightmares
imagine if the dancer actually died from dancing..
performance art at its finest lol
Very nice.
Super
1. My teacher made me watch this at school. we were screaming
2. go to 1:40 and put it on speed x2
3. this person is an amazing dancer but its just a little creepy
4. This is the only ballet in history when a fight broke out after wards
You're right. At the Opera House in Paris, at the premiere, the audience rioted and ripped the seats out of the floor.
I too like spreading unsubstantiated wives tales
1:39
これは笑わせにきてるわww
Wow.
Slay omg
Is there a video of the entire production?
why are they sacrificing tho?
For spring and good harvest to come every year, or something like that
the man himself said this dream came to him "to write a piece about a solemn pagan ritual. Sage elders seated in a circle, watching a young girl dance herself to death. They are sacrificing her to propitiate the God of Spring" although many different interpretations have been made of the original brief such as it being a virgin, the dress being red etc. Found out about this from the Album 'End On End' which is good too
Sun God Jarillo wants a virgin in exchange for a year of yeilding crops etc...but there is a twist. Jarillo wants her to kill herself for hi,,,,see for yearself from the man who knows: czcams.com/video/8pCCujH2x3w/video.html
ooh so close...czcams.com/video/8pCCujH2x3w/video.html
I find this variation pretty eerie. Can you explain the underlying meaning behind the Sacrificial Dance? Thank you!
Connie Zhou
What exactly do you mean? I can do my best to explain
Connie Zhou Stravinsky was fascinated with Russia's roots. This ballet is supposed to be an account of the process of choosing a virgin to sacrifice for successful crops. In the ballet, the virgin literally dances herself to death in sacrifice.
꿈에 나올듯한 비주얼;;
3:31 is the Start of the part where I was scared for her.
4:42 What are those things (like flashes of light) on the background?
You mean her hair? 💀
@@hahhey1372 No.
It’s her hair
Irina Nijinska disagreed with this reconstruction, as it was based on Southwest American Indian dancing, which had nothing to do with Scythian dancing at all. It went against the Nijinsky family school of choreography. She told me herself.
Her attire also suggests that of Native American influence as well
it was based on indigenous russian pagan sacrifice I don't know what your smoking.
none yeah, you sound absolutely ridiculous, 🤦🏼♀️if you look at the original pictures/artwork from the 1913 show, the costumes are almost exact. So you are either lying for some weird CZcams comment section clout or Nijinsky was so old when she spoke to you she was probably suffering from dementia. They recreated everything, even the old choreography 🙄😂
I did get that impression from the attire
@@interrexclamacion it's an interpretation of Nijinsky's ballet so the clothing isn't the same
I have never been so confused before
Apparently she is dancing herself to death for a sacrifice? I think?
@@virgilremus1184 yes
It’s set in prehistoric Russia. This girl was chosen for a ritual sacrifice in which she dances herself to death.
This is the Song One Winged Angel is based off.
To be honest, this video shows just how primitive, savage, and backward paganism is by nature with its demand for human sacrificing. Although I usually think of dinosaurs when listening to the Rite of Spring.
+CoreyStudios2000 Yeah, a good thing Christianity would never require someone to be sacrificed....oh wait....
+Chuck E. Jesus Oh, and Stravinsky himself LOATHED what Disney did with the dinosaurs, especially with Stokowsky "arranging" his music. Stravinsky described the resulting performance as "execrable."
+Chuck E. Jesus And I heard that what you said about Jesus being sacrificed by his followers is false. Fact is that it was the Romans who crucified him, executing him for supposedly "disturbing" the peace in the Empire. His followers were weeping over his death, not celebrating it. Just because the Bible shows people sacrificing themselves in the Old Testament doesn't mean that the Bible promotes human sacrifice. In fact, Christianity, Roman Catholicism especially, is abhorrent towards that kind of backward pagan thinking. So what if Stravinsky loathed what Disney did? You ought to respect people with different beliefs before you get your fascist Dawkinite skull bashed by an angry mob of people that you enjoy taunting on.
Stravinsky's creative genius reduced to lumbering dinosaurs slogging off to die in a primordial Dust Bowl. Disney "magic" = tragic.
You speak of respecting others and in the same sentence you insult him? Way to go buddy, you give a real good exemple.
She looks so creepy
Noice
pov: your here for homework
😧
I’m here from the girl on tiktok with the egg 😂
The dancing doesn't look tiring
Katherine Lu you’d be wrong
@@bradleymcentee2125 It was probably ironical 😂
DON NAA NA SIYA SA IMONG KWARTO
sayawon pa nako sya
Sad the original choreography was lost to time
my crazy orchestra teacher made the class watch this ...... it was weird
It is wonderful...
+Jill -- your crazy orchestra teacher did you a big favor. One day, I hope, you will appreciate that introduction to a broader artistic awareness.
I have no idea what your idea of normalcy is but if you are a typical American it has been heavily subsidized by corporate interests who rely on formulaic ideas that are fed to the public with little danger of losing their consumer base. ($$$$)
@@morinomajou My reference is not to other artistic pieces of verifiable merit (Firebird being another) but to popular entertainment that requires no effort to consume (the same principle behind junk food). I made no comment about "dark and edgy" content of art being more worthy of our attention. You did. I also did not say that "light and pretty" things are fluff. You did. As you may have noticed, not everything that comes to a theater or is shown on TV is worth the time devoted to watching it. The distinction I am making concerns extending the range of valuable experiences that young people encounter.
It makes more sense when you see the whole ballet. This fragment is at the end. A group of maiden dances in circle, and the one who falls down first is the "chosen one". That chosen one has to dance to the death, otherwise the tribe will not survive. The elders or maidens would surround the chosen one, so she cannot escape alive.
It’s certainly controversial.
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Anyone listen?
KEKW
Dear God, how can I unsee this?
핰ㅋ 이거 수행 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
shout out sayo timothy, penge skin grock venom h3he awts gege
어우씨 무서워라
can he not jump? scared me!
It's a she
Perfect, as it should
mr.meyer??? you there?
Have to watch for school, realy wierd melody
omg me too
Epic melody
Weird
They call it art lollll
What do you call art?
It is art
@d R Say a ridiculous NPC!
This is such a masterpiece. Stravinsky was a creative genius.