The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...

Running and leaping on a hard floor is one thing, but Bausch requires it to happen on a thick carpet of soft, crumbly peat. It takes 10 stagehands a full 30 minutes to cover the Sadler’s stage with ...

The Rite of Spring / common ground[s] will arrive at Sadler’s Wells Theatre this November following sell-out runs and international acclaim throughout its world tour. In celebration of the production, ...

The Rite of Spring: Pina Bausch/Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo - Maarten Vanden Abeele It’s a case of third time lucky for this long-delayed double-bill, which finally opened at Sadler’s Wells on ...

The anarchic energy and haunting melodies of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” have fascinated generations of dancers and choreographers since the ballet’s première, for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets ...

Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022. On May 2 and May 3 the venerated ASO music director laureate conducted a ...

“Kontakthof,” a pivotal Bausch dance from 1978, is being staged with members of the original cast. They talk about coming back to it nearly 50 years later. By Roslyn Sulcas She overcame childhood ...

Opening is common ground[s], a piece made and performed by Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo. Acogny is known as “the mother of contemporary African dance”, and Airaudo was an early member of Pina ...