As her company hits the road with its first full-scale tour after gaining national portfolio status last year, dancer and choreographer Seeta Patel tells Isaac Ouro-Gnao about realising her quest to ...
It’s been 50 years since Pina Bausch’s controversial The Rite of Spring was met with fury. As its most recent revival bows out after a four-year tour, its creatives talk to Nick Smurthwaite about ...
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, ...
In a rehearsal studio lined by floor-to-ceiling mirrors in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Anique Ayiboe is hunched in on herself, a ball of nerves. Tonight, the 33-year-old Togolese member of the ...
Pina Bausch’s son Salomon tells Kelly Apter why the acclaimed choreographer would have loved both the new, all-African reinterpretation of her iconic The Rite of Spring and the mixing of styles behind ...
Visual spectacle overwhelms the human drama in the choreographer’s tech-heavy double bill Technology can sometimes seem to take on its own life and sideline the people it is nominally assisting. That ...
The Paris premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was a pivotal moment in contemporary culture. A century later, the work remains one of the most thrilling experiences that the concert hall ...