Screenplays
Rite of Spring
Logline:
The ballet “Rite of Spring” promises to electrify 1913 Paris—if it ever gets out of rehearsals. An American music student scrambles to bring the work to stage while confronting his own assumptions about music, art and life.
Semifinalist – 2024 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition
Quarterfinalist – The Writer’s Lab’s US, 2024
Semifinalist – ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition (2024)
About this script:
I have written about the premiere of the ballet “Rite of Spring” in a magazine article for Mental Floss, in my book Secret Lives of Great Composers and The Modern Art Invasion. I love this story–the chaos, the people, the whole scene of Paris in 1913–and I have always struggled to convey the true shock of the original performance.
So I decided to tell this story from the point of view of a young American experiencing Paris, modern art, modern dance and modern music for the first time.
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