THE RITE OF SPRING [Ballet vs Fantasia 1940] [No comments]

Sacrificial dance or dinousaurs? You choose the best media!

I wanna made a series about this. I use the sound' original version (ballet, composition, etc) with audiovisual media (animation, videoclips, TV series, cinema, movies, etc) related to the original version. I change the media' speed, according to the original version's rhythm

The Rite of Spring is a ballet created by Igor Stravinsky, with a premiere at 29th May 1913 and with a riot!. The original version of this video is the ballet's one-hundred anniversary, in the same place.

But, in 1940, Walt Disney made his own version of the ballet... with dinousaurs. But he made a lot of cuts from the original version!

[josephzielinski]

“When Igor Stravinsky wrote his ballet The Rite of Spring, his purpose was in his own words to express primitive life. And so Walt Disney and his fellow artists, instead of his ballet in its original form as simply series as a tribal dances visualized it as a pageant as the story of the growth of life on earth, and that story as you going to see it isn't the product of anybody's imagination, it's a coldly accurate reproduction of what science thinks went on during the first few billion years of this planet's existence. So now imagine yourselves out in space, billions and billions of years ago, looking down on this lonely tormented little planet spinning through an empty sea of nothingness."

[DrummingKid]

At their core, they both represent cycles of rebirth and the inevitable passing of time.

[wildguy]

Fun fact
Disney wanted to make rite of spring being evolution of humans and humanity, but beacuse of reasons i dont know they changed to be evolution of earth and being era and extinction of the dinosaurs

[Lucius]

Interesting how Disney cut and pasted the composition to fit his narrative. I wonder what they would have done with it in its original form.

[fatfrogge]

Thank you, this was super interesting to see! I expected the sacrifice to be in the part where in fantasia the dinosaurs fight. Super interesting coreography! No wonder it had mixed review at the time, it doesn't feel like ballet, but it's high art!

[jonathankamysek]

and then the beginning piece for the end of the end of one era and the beginning of a new :) but seriously both are amazing side by side

[inthekeyofc]

I love them both <3. Fantasia introduced me to Stravinsky. The Rite has been one of my favourites ever since. I doubt it would have gotten much of a look in otherwise. I have many versions of it on vinyl, CD and now youtube. Yes, please do some more comparisons.

[Tadicuslegion]

I know the original ballet is what it's suppose to be used a T-Rex, how do you compete with a T-Rex?

[Crusader-Ramos]

Why does this tune and the story of it sound like a prehistoric dark ritual with insanely loud dark music?

[lordscrewtape]

You'd think Walt Disney was in the theater on opening that's how good fantasia syncs up with the ballet...he wasn't ( being just a kid at the time)...

[ingemayodon]

Einfach faszinierend. Vielen Dank und LG aus Montréal, Qc, Canada

[MrDSCH-ibmx]

Thank you so much for compiling this magnificent ballet with Disney's Fantasia! Could you also do the same with Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance Marches please? Thank you!

[lucaferretto]

I want to see this same concept with the Nutcracker too

[unclvinny]

I think this is the original choreography and costuming, right? Very cool, ty for posting it.

[OniBelfi]

Qué casualidad, justo hoy he estado viendo Fantasia jajajaja

[sammywestenberger]

ENNIO MORRICONE Isolated Score Dinosaurs 🦖 (Rite Of Spring Orchestra)

[jackiecooke]

Its interesting to see how much Fantasia seemed to have cut and pasted together the rite of spring for the dinosaurs. Especially where they go from drinking water to no water in the span of two seconds.

[aldeayeah]

My only regret is that the children/dinos weren't exposed to the life-changing rhythmical crunchiness of the Sacrificial Dance (31:27 to the end)

[everywhereattheendofemilyp]

I've fallen victim to the Mandela Effect! I watched Fantasia many times as a child and a few months ago became maybe a little obcessed with Rite of Spring. I thought Spring Rounds hit so hard for me because I was being nostalgic but no it's s not even in Fantasia?!?

[Paolo]

It's comical to me that Leonard Bernstein cited Phantasia to his students about what it meant to him, no disrespect to L.B.