‘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 [...]
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Thoughts on Pina Bausch’s ‘Rite of Spring’
Jun. 14, 2009 No Comments Posted under: Articles
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 [...]