Spring

Spring

Spring is the season stripped back to its primal roots. Not the gentle, pastel version, but the raw one: the violent green of the earth cracking open, the surge of things clawing back to life, the old rituals humans built around the terror and thrill of the world waking up again. This is a show about rebirth as a force, the ground thawing, the blood quickening, the ceremony and the sacrifice that ancient cultures wrapped around the return of the light. It's earthy, driving, and alive, spring with dirt under its fingernails.

The production draws its energy from two of the most iconic pieces of music ever written about the season, one pastoral and radiant, the other feral and pounding, and lets them play off each other to capture spring in full: both the beauty of the bloom and the primal power underneath it. It's a striking, high-energy concept with real musical pedigree, built for an ensemble that wants a show with both color and teeth.

The music:

• Inspired by The Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky)
• Spring, from The Four Seasons (Antonio Vivaldi)

Both source works are in the public domain, so this show carries no arranging clearances.