Pina Bausch /
Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo
The Rite of Spring /
common ground[s]
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
TICKETS
Friday 24 to Sunday 26 June
Stalls, stalls boxes and 1st order boxes €60
Second and third tier boxes €48
Gallery €15
Monday 27 June
Stalls, boxes and 1st tier boxes €45
Second and third tier boxes €36
Gallery €15
The Rite of Spring
choreography
music
Original Set and Costume Design
collaboration
World Premiere: 3 December 1975, Opera House Wuppertal
Restaging
artistic directors
Rehearsal Directors
dancers
with thanks to
common ground[s]
Co-Choreographers and Dancers
composer
costume designer
lighting designer
dramaturg
bass
cello
viola
violin
keyboard
conductor
sound engineer
live mix
The idea of “exchange” is central in this two-part programme which marks the first collaboration between the Pina Bausch Foundation (Germany), École des Sables (Senegal) and Sadler’s Wells (UK).
Bausch’s (1975) The Rite of Spring is danced by a newly assembled company of dancers from African countries. In this pioneering work, with music by Stravinsky, a ‘chosen one’ is sacrificed changing the season from winter to spring.
common ground[s] is a new work created, performed and inspired by the lives of two remarkable women: Germaine Acogny, “the mother of contemporary African dance” and founder of École des Sables and Malou Airaudo who has performed leading roles in many of Bausch’s early works. This poetic and tender piece, the duo’s first collaboration, examines their shared histories and emotional experiences.
production Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables, Sadler’s Wells
coproduction Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Festspielhaus, St Pölten; Ludwigsburg Festival; Teatros del Canal de la Comunidad de Madrid, Adelaide Festival, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi.
The project is funded by German Federal Cultural Foundation, il Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia, e l’International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe-Institut, and kindly supported by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
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