It was in honour of Diaghilev and his Ballet Russe, which that evening had performed a new ballet with music by Stravinsky. Among the other guests were Picasso, Joyce and Proust; and it is with some ...

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and the 1913 premiere by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris degenerated into a near-riot. With its themes of pagan sacrifice, Rite was hardly considered the stuff of classical ballet.