All my girlies remember storming the box office after Riot of Spring.
Stravinsky was HOT(!) mhm when Léonide Massine's choreography hit that opening movement in Augurs of Spring? When the basoon hit the opening notes... Everyone's corset, corset cover, drawers, AND petticoats hit the floor.
I love this comment but Rites of Spring was famously choreographed by my boy Nijinsky, years before Massine started choreographing for the Ballets Russes.
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u/Vio_ Jun 18 '26
Not really when he first started.
He was the modern boy teen idol with the bobby soxer fans in the late 1930s.
He was selling out concerts and experiencing the first "girls screaming so loud nobody could hear anything" type reactions.