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In what ways has The Rite of Spring laid the foundations for postmodernism in art, music, and dance?
The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, laid the foundations of postmodernism in art, music and dance by promoting the ideas rooted in Kant and Nietzsche -- namely that truth exists not as an objective reality but rather as a construct of the mind -- a subjective, internalization of externalities (Knight 89). Postmodernism in the 20th century was essentially a reaction to the modernism of the 19th century and modernism's elevated belief in Reason, based on Enlightenment ideology which came about as a result of the Scientific Revolution and Protestant Reformation in Europe. The postmodernist reaction to the inheritors of the Enlightenment was to elevate irrationality and absurdity -- the idea that human beings, far from using Reason, very often acted emotionally, selfishly, self-destructively and savagely. Ideas of self-destruction, irrationality and unpredictability are evident in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and in the choreography of Nijinsky -- and coming as it did at a pivotal juncture in world history -- just before the outbreak of WW1 -- Rite of Spring served as a turning point in the way the societies of the world view themselves: crumbling institutions, changing principles, a technologically-dependent world, a divorce between the past and the present, and a dislocation within the soul. All of this would impact the direction and course of art, music and dance over the course of the 20th century, and Nijinsky and Stravinsky share in the credit of establishing that course.
At twenty years of age, Vaslav Nijinsky had joined the Ballets Russes in 1909, which had been newly formed by Sergei Diaghilev, focusing on innovative and...
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