Name: The Rite of Spring
Start: 2025-10-22T18:30:00
Location: Southbank Centre

Jean-Sébastien Bou

Karina Canellakis

Andrew Staples

Véronique Gens

Southbank Centre

Together with the dancers of the company, Linder continues his research into hybrid forms of dance, treating these rare physical evolutions like precious jewels. Of particular interest is how the vocabulary of ballet can adapt its DNA through absorbing influences that are street, somatic and theatrical.

Ballet de Lorraine: Acid Gems and a Folia

It wasn’t just that a riot broke out at the premiere, either – Stravinsky’s volcanic score is so explosive that over a century later, we’re still reeling from the aftershock.