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This music changed the face of classical ballet.

The story of the ballet is almost a cross between the "Lord of the Flies" and the most recent ABC program called "Lost".

The Rite of Spring depicted "scenes of Pagan Russia", where there are primitive dancers that often turn violent and sexually sadistic, and create vulgar tactics like play rapes and seductions. The ballet also involves clashes of tribes, and round dances.

The climax of the story involves a young lady condemned to be sacrificed by dancing herself nonstop until she dies in
front of a circle of elders (called the "sacrificial dance", or, just a little specifically, the "sacrificial dance of the chosen one").
But the death at the end is not what made the ballet very radical. The most radical part was the beginning.

The opening of the ballet, as soon as the curtain went up in its premiere, was akin to the wardrobe malfunction in one Super Bowl halftime show---because the overture of the ballet showed primitive teenagers dancing in near-nude garb,
which was so vulgar to a Parisian audience seeing the premiere, that they exploded in anger and screamed and even threw objects at the ballet dancers and even at the orchestra, sometimes drowning out the harsh music that permeates the ballet.

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igor Stravinsky