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Sunday 15 November 2009

The wrongs of spring

Sorry Stravinsky. Sorry that your iconic masterpiece The Rite of Spring is being subject to this. That while the ENO orchestra in the pit doesn't put a foot wrong in all those complex rhythms and wild accents, unleashing your score's visceral power, there's a company of dancers on stage not putting a foot right. Sorry that you have to write one of the best ballet scores out there, and the choreography of this ENO production has to be so disappointing. A mass orgy followed by cigarettes? Tens of naked mens putting on flowery dresses to symbolise - I'm told - femininity? Not radical. Ridiculous.

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