The 33-year-old was due to star in a performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, choreographed by Britain's Wayne McGregor, later this year.

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Women, led by a "chosen one" of their number, according to the original scenario accompanying Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring, " also manage to dominate Yuri Possokhov's new ballet of the same name.

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Provocative Italian director Romeo Castellucci will reinterpret Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring with a 100-piece orchestra in the derelict Mayfield railway depot to mark the dance work's centenary.

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