The Stravinsky Season

This spring Birmingham Royal Ballet performs three ballets from this remarkable partnership in venues throughout England. Igor Stravinsky has produced an incredible range of pieces, and has been one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century.

 His first ballet was composed for the groundbreaking ‘Ballets Russes’, led by Russian exile Serge Diaghilev. It was while working with the ‘Ballets Russes’ some years later that Stravinsky first met the choreographer George Balanchine, a fellow Russian exile.

Their relationship was to develop over the next 50 years into one of the most important between a choreographer and composer. Although Balanchine made dances to many composers' music, it was to Stravinsky he returned again and again, predominantly for what are often described as 'pure dance' pieces - pieces without a storyline, dance for the pure pleasure of dance.

For further information go to:

http://www.brb.org.uk/livebase/bin2/webpack.dll/livebase?object=LiveBase1&itemurn=3336&mode=wbFullItem

And for listings of the events which are to be held as part of the Stravinsky season please go to our Events page.