I ended up watching Rite of Spring. The beginning was really nice. Then it got depressing... Wasn't the original dance about a woman who was being sacrificed to a Pagan god, and was made to dance to death? Or maybe that's a different thing... *Looks up*
The painter Nicholas Roerich shared his idea with Stravinsky in 1910, his fleeting vision of a pagan ritual in which a young girl dances herself to death. Stravinsky's earliest conception of The Rite of Spring was in the spring of 1910. Stravinsky writes, "... there arose a picture of a sacred pagan ritual: the wise elders are seated in a circle and are observing the dance before death of the girl whom they are offering as a sacrifice to the god of Spring in order to gain his benevolence. This became the subject of The Rite of Spring."
Hey, I was pretty close, huh?