Rite of Spring (The)

Still, the choreographer risked the venture, and carried off the challenge of expressing something different through pieces that have been interpreted thousands of times, evoking people’s internal seasons, their states of mind and their changes of heart. Four Seasons employs “a gestural language that’s bubbling, joyous and filled with humour, bringing to mind the curious, indomitable creatures – animal and human – that are found in Nature” according to Le Devoir (Montréal). Created for Les Grands Ballets in May 2007, Bigonzetti’s first ballet for a Canadian company is one of Les Grands greatest successes on tour, performed, among others, at Les Étés de la danse festival in Paris in 2008 and at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts last summer.