Anne Bogart and Bill T. Jones’ A Rite (Photo: Paul B. Goode)
Ballet to the People has been humming bits of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring ever since she first encountered it in her impressionable teens. It stuck in her head, along with the Led Zeppelin anthems. So when the lights went up on Bill T. Jones and Anne Bogart’s economically titled A Rite at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and their marvelous joint troupe of dancer-actors started stomping and clapping and grunting the score, and then singing it wordlessly, it made perfect sense. Whatever level of familiarity one brings to this piece of theatre, it is undeniably absorbing, if occasionally goofy and bewildering.
– Read more about this entertaining deconstruction of Stravinsky’s masterpiece in our review on BACHTRACK –
