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Rite of Spring

When Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky created the ballet The Rite of Spring, they knew it would shock. But did they know it would cause a riot on its first night in Paris? Witness takes you back to 1913 with the help of the BBC's archives.

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Fri 28 May 201010:50GMT
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