"Great Horizons Flooded with the Alien Light of the Sun" Le Sacre du Printemps in the Russian Context / Hanna Järvinen
.-- Edinburgh: : Edinburgh University Press, , 2013
2 p.
Dance Research -- Vol. 31, núm. 1, Summer 2013, p. 1 - 28
RESUMEN: Even a century the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps, Russian Contemporary sources offer a wealth of material on the Ballets Russes and particularly on Nijinsky´s 1913 choreography that are rarely even read let alone discussed in detail. Consequently, the interpretations ignore outright the importance of the historical context of Imperial Russia to this work and, specifically, the contemporary Russian dance discourse has been overshadowed by the authoritative voices of Western critics and rather selective reminiscences emphasising the scandalous premiere. This paper will give an overview of some of these little-known Russian sources and their generally positive reception of Nijinsky´s work in order to argue that these informed Russian spectators perceived Sacre in a manner that contest how his work has been represented in dance history.