Title: Disappointing
Review: I am a music professor, and for almost 25 years, I have relied on bootleg reproductions of PBS's Great Performances' airing of the Joffrey Ballet's reconstruction of the Rite (now available on UTube) for my classes. Naturally, I leapt at the opportunity to obtain a commercially released (LEGAL!) video. I tried to remain open minded, but from the first trembling strokes of the conductor's baton this DVD disappointed. The tempos in the music were disjointed (listen to the ostinato which radically changes tempos when the curtain opens), the dancers were imprecise and lethargic, the fist pumps at the end of the first section looked like half-hearted black power gestures at the 1968 Olympics, and the sacrificial virgin's final death actually made me laugh/cry with frustration.
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