CPO’s Under the Influence Festival set to provoke all sorts of outrageous and riotous reactions – in the best way

"More than 100 years ago, in 1913, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring took its first performance at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The twittering dissonance in the music, combined with the jerky movements of the dancers, is rumoured to have caused a riot from the audience. “As human beings, we react to music [...]