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.

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 .

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!

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.

This is creepy as heck but very interesting. It's pushing the boundaries of performance art, especially of ballet, to its limit.

The most scary part of this video is the fact that it is in 144p

*DANCE DANCE TILL YOU’RE DEAD*

I didn't blink the whole time I was watching her - that's how mesmerizing she is.

I wonder how much Stravinsky influenced film scoring. Every film score sounds like this.

The amount of stamina to do this-

the dance is kinda creepy but the dance flows nice and goes along good with the music

Years go by, this is still one of my favourite live performances. It’s perfect.

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.

I think this is the most realistic performance of the Rite of Spring

She danced beautifully, bravo!

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 have no idea wtf is going on but this is in one of my audition excerpts and what has been seen cannot be unseen

ahh love this, dancer has great musicality and the piece is played nice and slow

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

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

4:23 I don’t know if that’s the intention but it looks like she’s spitting out blood

I have watched many dancers perform the death dance and this dancer is my favorite.

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.

People in the comments don’t realize how hard this dance actually is

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.

THATS PERFECT! REALLY PERFECT OMG!!!!!

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?

I wanted to watch this for fun; for grade nine music theory you need to know the first part only

My music teacher showed this to me

Gods of spring seeing some random girl die while dancing: "*Sensational.*"

My dramatic ass after dancing

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

Wonderful.

4:52 D. E. A. D.

This is brilliant

LOVE IT !!!

10/10 brutal breakdown

There’s a riot going on outside the theater. Again.

Excellent dancer!

Maravilhoso!

it gave me nightmares

Fantastic dancing...

Ducking terrifying.

Very nice.

Super

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Wow.

imagine if the dancer actually died from dancing..

Slay omg

1:39 これは笑わせにきてるわww

Is there a video of the entire production?

our teacher made us watch this at school. We were screaming!

What drugs were Stravinsky doing?

He did atonality the right way. Often it seems like atonal music was lazily made, but not in his case.

꿈에 나올듯한 비주얼;;

pov: your here for homework 😧

I have never been so confused before

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?

This is the Song One Winged Angel is based off.

😱

В Космосе оценили тоже.

I’m here from the girl on tiktok with the egg 😂

why are they sacrificing tho?

Anyone listen?

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 dancing doesn't look tiring

KEKW

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I find this variation pretty eerie. Can you explain the underlying meaning behind the Sacrificial Dance? Thank you!

DON NAA NA SIYA SA IMONG KWARTO

mr.meyer??? you there?

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.

Sad the original choreography was lost to time

my crazy orchestra teacher made the class watch this ...... it was weird

can he not jump? scared me!

어우씨 무서워라

Dear God, how can I unsee this?

Have to watch for school, realy wierd melody

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.

Weird

They call it art lollll