Sunday 17 February 2008

Dance: "Café Müller/ The Rite of Spring"


Influential choreographer Pina Bausch and her company Tanztheater Wuppertal will perform two seminal works drawn from the early stages of Bausch's extensive repertoire. "Café Müller," created in 1978, is a personal piece, inspired by childhood memories observing relationships in her father’s café. The dance is accompanied with haunting Purcell music. Bausch’s acclaimed 1975 work "Le Sacre du Printemps," or "The Rite of Spring" is an adaptation of Stravinsky's masterpiece in which the dancers perform on a stage covered with peat, dancing to near exhaustion. The performance is showing at Sadler's Wells Theatre in Islington, London until February 22.

http://www.sadlerswells.com/show/Pina-Bausch.htm

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