‘The Oracle’: Meryl Tankard                
Spring Dance Season, Sydney Opera House, 16-20 October 2009
The Oracle, Meryl Tankard’s work set to Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, is a triumph. A solo work for Paul White, who dances with astonishing physicality and intensity, it is an example of how affecting a work can be when the creative team has [...]

Thoughts on Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring
Performed at Sadlers Wells, London, by Tanztheater Wuppertal, 20 February 2008 (with Café Müller).
Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring has always fascinated me. I had seen her production on video in 1989 but never in the flesh. What I had seen in the flesh was the famous (or infamous) Nijinsky [...]