After reading the ballot and watching the play "The Rite of Spring", I can understand why the audience felt as if this play was "scandalous". The rite of spring was a pagan ritual of sacrifice not the usual ballet the audience was used to seening.Ballets during this time could be described as romantic and classical accompanied with soft music. "The Rite of Spring" the dancers are dressed in very bright and colorful costumes, had unique dance moves that consisted of jerking heads, synchronized jumps. The music in this particular ballet is completely different in the sense that people portrayed ballet music to be romantic, but Stravinsky music in the ballet can be described asviolent, high, and sharp type of music, which did not associate with
