Part music video, part tale of soul-searching and survival, 'The Rite of Spring: A Musical Odyssey' is a boundary-breaking film that culminates in the sacrificial destruction of a piano. The film weaves together a ferocious dueling piano performance of Igor Stravinsky's 35-minute masterwork with a narrative of existential awakening. Starting from traditional concert trappings, the protagonists are gradually sucked into a ritualistic spiral among dancers, insects, and hallucinatory worlds until they are faced with a naked reckoning in the ocean and an ancient piano ablaze in the desert. Conceived, produced, directed, performed, and edited by Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe, 31-year-old Juilliard alumni and world-renowned pianists, Billboard chart-topping artists, and Emmy-nominated pioneers of the classical music video genre.
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