"Igor Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring is a work commonly known as the most difficult one in repertoires of respectable ballet companies in the entire world. It takes many years of a choreographer’s work with the dancers to create a basis for an attempt to produce the massed score once proposed to Sergei Diaghilev’s company by the genius composer. Vatslav Nijinsky, the first choreographer of this ballet, created a certain movement and interpretation standard which could not be discussed almost at all for a long time.
Only Maurice Béjart’s production broke the pattern and drew new possibilities. The grand spectacle by Pina Bausch closed a certain stage of the search in the field of this music and made each person trying to have a go at it consider it as a reference point. Numerous production add to the collective output their own values, with a better or worse effect, aware of the fact that they are trying to reach the highest summit in the ballet range.

The creator and artistic director of the Baltic Dance Theatre – Izadora Weiss – is a choreographer who with her previous productions has proven the skill of creating grand, moving spectacles that receive excellent reviews from critics and standing ovations from the audiences. Her work on her own dance language and on the manner of expressing emotions gives hope that the Rite of Spring by this extraordinary company under her direction will become another event in the intensive life of our theatre and a moving experience for every member of the audience. Also Audi’s patronage over the entire undertaking additionally strengthens the hope, as it gives our artistic ambitions serious financial support.
The message of the spectacle is connected with the common fight of the democratic structures of the globalizing society to bring the relations between men and women to a level of partners and clear the terrain of the gender struggle of male chauvinism and violence. Treating woman as objects used to satisfy sexual needs and fantasies is still a painful topic. We keep hearing declarations about the equality of rights and respect for the weaker sex and yet we keep seeing countless acts of violence and of contempt resulting not only from pathological reflexes of single individuals but also from the common consent, traditions and cultivating wrong values. Our Rite of Spring is a vehement protest against such status quo".

Izadora Weiss

The Rite of Spring, spectacle by Izadora Weiss