Eye On Dance Airs THE RITE OF SPRING

When the Ballets Russes premiered "The Rite of Spring" (Le Sacre du Printemps) with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky to Stravinsky's new score in Paris in May, 1913, the theater erupted in a riot. The dancers could not count the music, the musicians did not consider it music and the movements did not resemble classical ballet. The birth of modernism! Many years later an historian labeled this performance a warning of a century to come in which the world sacrificed its best people searching for peace.

The Joffrey Ballet performed "Rite" in 1987 reconstructed by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer. Celia Ipiotis, creator of the television series, Eye on Dance, interviewed Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer in 1987. Ipiotis will show the program and interview two former Joffrey dancers: Nicole Duffy Robertson and Denise Jackson Sutherland.