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With spring finally sprung, this special issue of Dancing Times marks the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, the ballet that caused a scandal at its first performance by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris on the evening of May 29, 1913. Rite went on, in almost unstoppable fashion, to become one of the most significant artistic works of the whole of the 20th century. I am delighted Richard Alston, Stephanie Jordan and Sarah Woodcock have contributed excellent articles on the subject of Rite for this issue, and that Jeannette Andersen, our regular contributor from Munich, was able to travel to Hamburg on our behalf to interview choreographer and director John Neumeier, who owns one of the world’s most important private collections of material relating to Vaslav Nijinsky, the choreographer of the very first Rite. It’s not just about Rite this month, however, as we also include for you an extensive array of news, views and reviews. I hope you enjoy it.