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On an luxurious evening in-may 100 years earlier, the scandalous premiere of The Rite of Spring and coil rocked the epicenter of culture and fashion - Paris - and dispatched aftershocks around the world. Not bad for a ballet! But this is no traditional scamper in tulle and red toe-shoes, but a striking provocation by way of a trinity of avant-garde genius: composer Igor Stravinsky, choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (the first male god of boogie), and impresario Serge Diaghilev, founder of the Ballet Russes. Anticipation was high, the audience arrived ready to rumble, and when the curtain travelled up, civil battle broke out in the seats - an orgy of catcalls, hisses, hecklings, and slaps. Viewers have got unruly before and since in the theater, but this is an instant of reckoning that split the young century in two, announcing the labor and birth of modernism and the loss of life of la belle epoque. What took place that riotous nights and why does it ring inside our ears and bones a century later? James Wolcott, a columnist for Vanity Rational and author of the Kindle Single The Gore Supremacy, needs it apart and places it back along in Crazy in the Seating.
