(3.1) This Friday’s salon at the Athenaeum is co-presented with FirstWorks whose season includes a reconstruction of Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring on March 19th at PPAC. The salon, “Cultural Convulsion/Incipient Explosion: Art as Augury in 1913,” will examine a year in which dance, art, and literature propelled themselves into a new age.
Nijinsky’s 1913 work The Rite of Spring, with music by Stravinsky, as homage to the centenary of the ballet’s Paris premiere – at which, due to the radical nature of the artistry, a riot ensued. Also in 1913, the Armory Show, an exhibit of avant-garde works of visual art, opened in New York City to shock and outrage, and Marcel Proust published the first volume of his revolutionary novel Á la Recherche du Temps Perdu. The Salon will examine the cultural and political moment characterized by these and other interconnected radical developments, including advances in technology and a coming world war.
(A ballet riot . . . that hardly ever happens any more.) The Salon will examine the cultural and political moment characterized by these and other interconnected radical developments, including advances in technology and a coming world war.
5pm, Friday, March 1, Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street