Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring explores a New World in its own way and marks the entry of dance into modernity. Marie Chouinard finds in this avant-garde work an original pulsation in resonance with her own gestures. Far from constraining the rhythm of his dance, the breath of this powerful score inspires it, accompanies it and energizes it, both the echo and the musical counterpoint of an organic, vigorous and exalted choreography.

Every form, for Marie Chouinard, is the deployment in space of a particular vital impulse. Unlike the choreographers who have approached it so far, she built her Rite around solos, seeking to awaken in a movement that is both strong and clear, the intimate mystery of each dancer.