Pina Bausch’s solo PHILIPS 836 887 DSY and The Rite of Spring join Germaine Acogny’s solo, Homage to the Ancestors to create an electric evening of works never seen together before.

The Rite of Spring will be danced by a special company of dancers from African countries. Faithful to Stravinsky's composition, this fundamental work examines the unyielding ritual, the sacrifice of a ‘chosen one’ that brings the season from winter to spring.

The Rite of Spring 
Choreography: Pina Bausch
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Set and Costumes: Rolf Borzik
Collaboration: Hans Pop
World Premiere: 3 December 1975, Opera House Wuppertal

2021 Restaging  
Artistic Directors: Jo Ann Endicott, Jorge Puerta Armenta, Clémentine Deluy
Rehearsal Directors: Ditta Miranda Jasjfi, Çağdaş Ermiş, Barbara Kaufmann, Julie Shanahan, Kenji Takagi

PHILIP 836 887 DSY
Choreography: Pina Bausch
Music: Pierre Henry
World Premiere: 1971

Homage to the Ancestors
Choreography: Germaine Acogny
Music: Fabrice Bouillon
World Premiere: 2023

A Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables & Sadler’s Wells production, co-produced with Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Festspielhaus, St Pölten;Ludwigsburg Festival;Teatros del Canal de la Comunidad de Madrid, Adelaide Festivaland Spoleto Festival dei 2Mondi.

The project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe-Institut, and kindly supported by the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.