Integration, Intensification.

This week we will consider the work of Igor Stravinsky, especially his ballet "Les Noces," composed in collaboration with Bronislava Nijinska. The work raises a number of issues: it exists in multiple versions and incorporates references to Russian wedding rituals. It is one of the rare early twentieth-century ballets for which the choreography has survived. Stravinsky's famous "Rite of Spring" is a different story altogether: it has become known more as a concert piece than as a ballet, although this has begun to change. It was "restored" in the 1990s and has been rechoreographed by present-day choregraphers. It even played a role in the first "Fantasia" by Disney, which Stravinsky abhorred.

	Igor Stravinsky
Review of The Royal Ballet's "Les Noces"
	Jiri Kylian's Black and White Ballets