For dancer Anique Ayiboe, entering the world of "The Rite of Spring" has been a journey of discovery. The Togolese dancer, who has been traveling and performing the renowned 1975 Pina Bausch piece ...

The return of the ballet masterpiece that caused a riot - IN FOCUS: When Pina Bausch premiered her 1975 version of Stravinsky’s controversial ‘The Rite of Spring’ in Germany, audiences were so angry ...

As a child in Cape Town, South Africa, Sonia Zandile Constable was expected to find a “serious” career in academics or medicine. That may have happened, except for a fateful tea break her teacher took ...

As the piece opens, dancers start to appear in formal attire, carrying chairs, picking their way through the flowers and sitting down in silence, expectantly. Then Richard Tauber sings Franz Léhar’s ...

This is the second time that Sadler’s has hosted this special production of Bausch’s extraordinary response to Stravinsky’s score. The choreography dates back to 1975, and for years was exclusively ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Premiered in 1982, Nelken depicts tragic and cruel scenes, while holding a ...

She overcame childhood polio to become a dancer with American Ballet Theater, then taught contemporary dancers and members of Pina Bausch’s acclaimed company. By Claudia Bauer In a Dance Reflections ...

The German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch invented a new kind of dance — tanztheater, or dance theater — that made her legendary among her peers. She was also known for her intense, familial ...

Choreographer-led works at the annual German theater event range from the transgressive to the melancholic. By Emily J. May “Kontakthof,” a pivotal Bausch dance from 1978, is being staged with members ...

Philippine "Pina" Bausch (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German dancer and choreographer who was a significant contributor to a neo-expressionist dance tradition now known as Tanztheater. Bausch's ...