Dancer

Choreographer

In this double-bill production, Pina Bausch’s iconic The Rite of Spring, a “ferocious roar of a piece” (The Guardian), is performed by an ensemble of more than 30 dancers from 14 African countries and assembled through a collaboration with the Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables, and Sadler’s Wells. Stravinsky’s searing, ominous score takes on new meaning through visceral choreography as a “chosen one” is sacrificed.

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The Rite of Spring

University of California, Berkeley

“How would you dance, if you knew you were going to die?” This is the central question asked by the late choreographer Pina Bausch of her dancers in 1975 when she created her seminal work The Rite of Spring, which examines unyielding ritual when the sacrifice of a “chosen one” changes the season from winter to spring. This pioneering work, establishing her iconic approach, has gone on to become one of the 20th century’s most significant and important bodies of dance theater.

The Rite of Spring: Common Grounds

Park Avenue Armory

The late choreographer Pina Bausch asked her dancers this question in 1975, when she created her vision of The Rite of Spring, where a young woman is sacrificed so spring can arrive. Her pioneering work, one of the first that established her iconic approach to dance theater, is now being danced by a newly assembled company of dancers from more than a dozen African countries.

The Rite of Spring / common ground[s]

University Musical Society

First staged in 2008, the penultimate work of legendary choreographer Pina Bausch makes its long-awaited London premiere at Sadler’s Wells in 2026.

Dancer, Choreographer

Pina Bausch

Events

Upcoming events

11 - 21 Feb, 2026

Tanztheater Wuppertal / Pina Bausch - ΄Sweet Mambo΄ · Sadler’s Wells Theatre

Past events

16 - 18 Feb, 2024

The Rite of Spring · Cal Performances

Nov 29 - Dec 14, 2023

The Rite of Spring: Common Grounds · Park Avenue Armory

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