2013 actually marks 100 years since the first performance of the Ballet Russes Rite of Spring in Paris. An audience riot erupted and the journalist and photographer Carl Van Vechten claimed that the person behind him got carried away with excitement and began to 'beat rhythmically' on top of his head!
There is an interesting radio programme about the Rites of Spring here and there are great photos of the costumes of the Ballet Russes here and here.
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