His collaboration with Coates, a former New York City Ballet dancer with a background in neoclassical ballet and American postmodern dance, will allow the two artists to meld their backgrounds and differing styles together in a new, modern exploration of Nijinsky’s historic work. The initiative also provides students the chance to work with guest choreographers and industry professionals, including Yale’s own dance faculty.īorn in Burkina Faso, Coulibaly brings a unique world view and dance background grounded in African choreographic expression. Yale Dance Lab is a faculty-directed, co-curricular arts research initiative that aims to promote community, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and activism through dance at Yale and beyond. Concept sketch by artist Nicholas Roerich, costume and stage designer for The Rite of Spring (1945). “The opportunity for such a large-scale collaboration with one of Yale's largest musical gems is very special and hopefully creates a model for more,” said Coates, who created the Yale Dance Lab in 2011. The final performance next year will feature live music from the Yale Symphony Orchestra. The presentation will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. On Tuesday, March 8, the Dance Lab invites members of the Yale community to watch an open rehearsal at the Crescent Theater.
This semester, nearly 110 years since the ballet’s debut, Yale Dance Lab began a workshop to create their own production of the classic, which will be choreographed by dancer-choreographer Emily Coates, a professor in the practice and director of dance in Theater and Performance Studies with a secondary appointment in the Directing Program at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and dancer-choreographer Lacina Coulibaly, who is a lecturer in the program and an artistic associate of the Dance Lab. Nevertheless, it would go on to become a seminal work in the history of concert dance, heavily influencing many orchestral ballets to come. When it debuted in Paris in 1913, it famously provoked riots.
Featuring Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography and Stravinsky’s dissonant score, and depicting scenes of pagan ritual, it was unlike anything audiences had seen before.
More than a century ago, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Rite of Spring” created a sensation perhaps unlike any other in the history of theater.
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