In 1958 Pina Bausch was awarded the Folkwang Leistungspreis and, armed with a grant from the Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service: DAAD) she spent a year as ‘Special Student’ at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Members of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Ralph Lemon, and BAM Hamm Archives Director Sharon Lehner discuss the company’s return to BAM this season with the iconic works Café Müller and The Rite of Spring. Dance critic Michael Crabb also offers a free pre-show talk entitled A Fatal Attraction: Dancing to The Rite of Spring. The Rite of Spring became one of Tanztheater Wuppertal’s most frequently performed works, as well as the last piece Bausch choreographed in the traditional sense. Tanztheater Wuppertal: Rite of Spring By Julye Huggins On August 5th, in tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, the Toronto Summer Music Festival is screening her 1978 dance film The Rite of Spring , accompanied by James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton playing Stravinsky’s four-hand piano edition of the score. Slowly it became clear what dance theatre was about; not provocation, but, in Pina Bausch’s own words, ‘a space where we can encounter each other’. Assuming the role of artistic director for the Wuppertal Opera ballet in 1973, she continued to produce new ballets thus developing the style of tanztheater.. For the performances at BAM, Tanztheater Wuppertal will perform Cafe Muller and The Rite of Spring.Cafe Muller (1978) likely includes … In taking people’s essential emotions as its starting point – their fears and needs, wishes and desires – the Tanztheater Wuppertal was not only able to be understood throughout the world, it sparked an international choreographic revolution. It is a theatre that does not aim to preach, instead creating an elemental experience of life, which each spectator is invited to participate in along with the dancers. Pina Bausch danced in works by Jooss, both old and new, as well as assisting him with choreography. Bausch set up her company, Tanztheater Wuppertal, in 1973 and her theatre is a place of vivid imagination and grand scale. All pictures are copyright protected by law, Pina Bausch The spaces’ variety ranges from nineteenth century interiors to bare wooden boards of Japanese minimalism. He had succeeded in re-invigorating the Folkwang Ballet, subsequently re-named the Folkwang Tanzstudio. International As a dancer she worked with Paul Taylor, Paul Sanasardo and Donya Feuer. Das Frühlingsopfer / The Rite of Spring / Le Sacre du Printemps. ON ... Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Goethe Institut and kindly supported by the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. ... “The Rite of Spring,” a more conventional dance work, is easier to process. Stunning choreographer Pina Bausch and the mindblowing Tanztheater Wuppertal present two works based on the works of famous composers, Bausch’s most seminal cho http://www.pina-bausch.de. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Scene: 7 - Young Girl's Dance Choreography: Kylian? It is a theatre which remains free of all ideology and dogma, viewing the world with as little prejudice as possible and acknowledging life – in all its facets. Her parents ran a restaurant in Solingen attached to a hotel where, along with her siblings, Pina helped out. She thus cast the Bochum guest performance with just four dancers, five actors and a singer. Like the pieces themselves, stages sets and costume reflect everyday life yet continually exceed it, ascending into dream-like beauty and weightlessness. BC March 25-22 avril 2021, Merce Cunningham The second part, collaged freely together, with both men and women wearing female clothes as Bausch plays with entrenched gender-role conventions, is both entertaining and funny. In 1997 the German government honoured her with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the French with the title Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et de Lettre in 1991 and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2003. Over the 36 years in which Pina Bausch (1940—2009) shaped the work of Tanztheater Wuppertal, she created an oeuvre that casts an unerring gaze at reality, while simultaneously giving us the courage to be true to our own wishes and desires. The atmosphere of her early childhood seems to find an echo later in her pieces; music is heard, people come and go, and talk of their yearning for happiness. Laurence Olivier Award 'The Best New Dance Production' for Café Müller and Das Frühlingsopfer (The Rite of Spring) ... Eduard von der Heydt prize awarded to the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Dancing at Dusk – A moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring is produced by Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables and Sadler’s Wells. April 14-20 avril 2021, Mozaico Flamenco Dance Theatre Vancouver For their part, they are required to take responsibility themselves. In her version of the Rite of Spring (1975) she covered the stage with wet earth, while in Arien (1979) she used water, which soaked into the dancers' costumes as the piece progressed - a visual reminder of the passing of time. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Rite of Spring. (The work drew similarly violent responses as well as praise, when Tanztheater Wuppertal brought it to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1984 on its first American tour. Water and rain allow the body to be seen through the clothes; earth makes every movement a feat of strength; the dancers’ steps are traced in a layer of fallen leaves. Yet her early experience of the war is also reflected in the pieces, in sudden outbursts of panic, fear of an unnamed danger. Friendly warning! Mar 27, 2019 - Explore Tabitha Tohill-Reid's board "The Rite of Spring", followed by 135 people on Pinterest. Filmed before social distancing requirements were in place. Several universities have awarded her an honorary doctorate. April 5-25 avril 2021, Red Sky Performance Toronto April 17-18 avril 2021, Virginia Duivenvoorden North Vancouver Jooss was a significant proponent of pre- and post-war German modern dance which had freed itself from the shackles of classical ballet. All music was afforded the same value, as long as it expressed genuine emotions. She was born in 1940 in Solingen as Philippine Bausch; under her nickname Pina she was later to gain international standing from nearby Wuppertal with her dance theatre. The Tanztheater Wuppertal has no obligations other than to human beings and thus to a humanism which recognises no borders. A shift happened in 1977, in the creation of Bausch’s piece Bluebeard- with recording of Bela Bartok’s “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” (1977). Talking about people through dance BC She created her first works in Wuppertal as guest choreographer, performed with members of the Folkwang Tanzstudio: Aktionen für Tänzer (Actions for Dancers) in 1971 and the Tannhäuser Bacchanal in 1972. Her 1975 choreography for Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps was to become a milestone; the emotional force and unmediated physicality of the piece became trademarks of her work. The first part of the evening sees Germaine Acogny, “the mother of contemporary African dance” and founder of École des Sables, unite with Malou Airaudo, an early long-standing member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch who performed leading roles in many of Bausch’s pieces, including the Chosen One in The Rite of Spring. Members of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in “The Rite of Spring” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. But along with her talent for drama Pina Bausch also demonstrated a sense of humour right from the start, seen for instance in her Brecht/Weill double-bill Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins) and Fürchtet Euch nicht (Don’t Be Afraid) of 1976. She continued the European and American Expressionist movements in dance with modernist works in the highly dramatic mode of modern dance theatre dealing with psychological trauma arising from relationships. Rehearsals of The Rite of Spring at École des Sables (Toubab Dialaw, Senegal) For the production of The Rite of Spring auditions with a total of 135 participants took place in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Senegal in December 2019. See more ideas about the rite of spring, the rite, pina bausch. Pina Bausch’s teachers included Antony Tudor, José Limón, dancers from Martha Graham’s company, Alfredo Corvino and Margret Craske. In the early days his stage sets and costumes had largely shaped the appearance of dance theatre. From The Rite of Spring, Photo Credit:Ludovico Bastianini / Image courtesy of BAM. It takes the spectators’ everyday lives seriously yet at the same time buoys up their hopes that everything can change for the better. It is only true that she must, and everything in The Rite of Spring compels her towards her death. In 1974, with Ich bring dich um die Ecke (I’ll Do You In), she entered the frivolous world of popular songs, while Komm, tanz mit mir (Come Dance with Me) used old German folk songs and Renate wandert aus (Renate Emigrates) played on the clichés of operetta (both 1977). Bausch demonstrated both these values, unleashing dramatic energy of a kind never seen before. As a part of our series, Dance Criticism: Perceptions, challenges and the future, Grace Wells-Smith speaks to four Canadian dance critics about how dance criticism fits into the current fold. The city was seen as a dance Mecca, where classical ballet was being reinvented thanks to George Balanchine and modern dance further developed. Dance, Contemporary and experimental. Buy tickets Time Out says. With her credo – finding a language for life – Pina Bausch was uniquely eloquent. With this cast she was unable to deploy choreographic steps and so began by asking her performers associative questions around the themes of the play. While listening to a tape recording of Bela Bartók’s opera ‘Duke Bluebeard’s Castle’) in which passages of the music are repeated relentlessly, felt like torture. A Piece by Pina Bausch 2020/2021: Wuppertal World-Premiere 16.01.1993, Wuppertal Details The Rite of Spring World-Premiere 03.12.1975, Wuppertal Details Learn more: Tanztheater Wuppertal or Music & Dance: Anagnoson & Kinton. From Kurt Jooss she had learned ‘honesty and precision’. Bausch’s company, Tanztheater Wuppertal, is based in Wuppertal, Germany, and continues to perform her works internationally each year. In her later work her affinity to opera and her respect for musical tradition was to play a equal role to, for instance, her love of jazz. The worldwide development of dance theatre resulted in many international co-productions for the Tanztheater Wuppertal: Viktor, Palermo Palermo and O Dido in Italy, Tanzabend II (Dance Evening II) in Madrid, Ein Trauerspiel (A Tragedy) in Vienna, Nur Du (Only You) in Los Angeles, Der Fensterputzer (The Window Washer) in Hong Kong, Masurca Fogo in Lisbon, Wiesenland (Meadow Land) in Budapest, Água in Brazil, Nefés (Breath) in Istanbul, Ten Chi in Tokyo, Rough Cut in Seoul, Bamboo Blues in India and most recently the new 2009 production in Chile, which Pina Bausch will no longer be able to give a title to. Working in an intimate and truly collaborative partnership with her dancers, Bausch created works that speak to her fascination with primitive human experiences. The costumes too, can be as elegant as they are absurd, from the refinement of evening dress to the childish delight in dressing up. The young dance student Bausch thus acquired techniques for free creative expression as well as the command of a clear form. “The Rite of Spring” (1975) and “Café Müller” (1978), legendary choreographer Pina Bausch's two most iconic works, are the sold-out centerpiece of BAM’s Next Wave Festival; Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch carries on following sudden Bausch's death in 2009, delivering a performance as fresh, profound, and exhilarating as ever. The show is preceded by a historical overview of The Rite of Spring hosted by dance specialist Valérie Lessard and featuring guest artists. She learned to observe people, above all the fundamental things which drive them. Dancing at Dusk – A moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (2020) is produced by Pina Bausch Foundation (Germany), Ecole des Sables (Senegal) and Sadler’s Wells (United-Kingdom). By admin Posted on March 22, 2015. Invited by the director of the Bochum theatre Peter Zadek to create her own version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, she found herself in a difficult situation. She created the company Tanztheater Wupper All The proximity of the other arts taught at the Folkwang School, including opera, music, drama, sculpture, painting, photography, design, was also an important influence on her, reflected later in the form of a wholly open approach to the media in her work as a choreographer. In 1978 Pina Bausch changed her working methods. Now, however, she was obliged to finance her stay and found employment with Antony Tudor at the Metropolitan Opera. Bausch’s seminal 1975 work, The Rite of Spring, is danced by a newly assembled company of dancers from African countries. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Thu 3 Jan 2013 02.30 EST Pina Bausch The Rite of Spring - Rehearsals as École des Sables. Tanztheater Wuppertal, The Rite of Spring (1975), music by Igor Stravinsky, directed and choreographed by Pina Bausch. 1991. We're working hard to be accurate. A scene from a production of The Rite Of Spring by Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal at Sadler's Wells in London. World Premiere 3 December 1975, Opera House Wuppertal, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. The description Tanztheater, or dance theatre, originally used by Rudolf von Laban in the 1920s, is a statement of intent; it stands for an emancipation from mere balletic routines and the complete freedom to chose one’s means of expression and Pina Bausch now developed several new genres in quick succession. The secret of this success may lie in the fact that Pina Bausch’s dance theatre risks taking an unflinching look at reality, yet at the same time invites us to dream. Catch on demand performances from Fall for Dance North’s 2019 event at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), celebrating the legacy of Merce Cunningham (Available until May 21), Collette Murray Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Café Müller/The Rite of Spring. All the men and women in Pina Bausch’s pieces can do is test out, with the utmost precision and honesty, what brings each and every one closer to happiness, and what pushes them further from it; they cannot offer a panacea. [recent_posts num="3" meta="true" thumb="false" more_text_single=">>>" excerpt_count="15" custom_class="latest_news" more_link="#" more_text="view all"]. A mediator between cultures, it is a messenger of freedom and mutual understanding. 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