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Music: Igor Stravinskij 

Choreography: Jiří Bartovanec 

Choreographer´s assistant: Dora Sulženko Hoštová 

Dance: Sára Betušová, Kristýna Hebelková, Barbora Křížová, Jaroslav Lambor, Lucie Matoušková, Daniel Matušů, Patrik Miker, Jan Razima, Eva Rezová, Barbora Vaňková, Lenka Vořechovská, Tereza Weinlichová 

Light design & light concept: Michal HóR Horáček 

Set design: Michal HóR Horáček, Jindřich Havlík 

Costumes: Eva Judová 

Premiere: 2016
 

Images from pagan Russia inspired by the ancient ritual of worshipping the arrival of spring. 

 “Sage elders sitting in a circle watch a pre-mortal dance of a young girl whom they will later sacrifice to the god of spring in order to win his mercy.“

Are we able to sacrifice ourselves in these superficial times? For whom or for what? What are the forms of sacrifice of the young generation? Maybe also of non-sacrifice for nothing and nobody? The unfathomable can perhaps manifest as a certain fact of unacceptability of pagan gods and rituals in an atheistic environment. What are our values that will help us decipher and asses the power of rituals and the way they keep the cycle of life going? 

Choreographer and dancer Jiří Bartovanec together with thirteen students of the third year of the Duncan Centre dance conservatory were looking for certain principles of their lives. They worked with joy, fear and devotion to one another and even to everything and everybody. Their own presence became an important element as if The Rite of Spring were the ritual of their own egos and times they live in.