riot at the rite

project overview

the brief: turn a historical event into an interactive experience, then design, build and deploy it using claude code. i chose the 1913 paris premiere of the rite of spring, when stravinsky's score and nijinsky's choreography for the ballets russes sparked a riot in the audience. no footage of that night exists, only eyewitness accounts that contradict each other. riot at the rite makes the gap part of the story: a scrollytelling website where visitors arrive as a latecomer and move through navigable 360° spaces of the theatre, before and after the riot broke out, piecing together what happened on classical ballet's most notorious night.