Running and leaping on a hard floor is one thing, but Bausch requires it to happen on a thick carpet of soft, crumbly peat. It takes 10 stagehands a full 30 minutes to cover the Sadler’s stage with ...

Ever since I was first introduced to Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” in a course I took in university on Western Theatrical Dance, I have been in love with the piece. Two years ago, "The Rite ...

I CONFESS a good dollop of indulgence in my enjoyment of the RSNO’s Stravinsky-Bartok concert on Saturday night, with Thomas Sondergard in intelligent control of the proceedings. There’s not a work in ...

The anarchic energy and haunting melodies of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” have fascinated generations of dancers and choreographers since the ballet’s première, for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets ...

It’s been 50 years since Pina Bausch’s controversial The Rite of Spring was met with fury. As its most recent revival bows out after a four-year tour, its creatives talk to Nick Smurthwaite about ...