The cross-Africa dance company bringing new life to Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring

The cross-Africa dance company bringing new life to Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring

Dancers perform Rite of Spring. Pina Bausch Foundation Lucy Weir, The University of Edinburgh At its premiere in 1913, Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring shocked audiences and divided critics. The ballet centered around a straightforward yet brutal narrative – a community selects a sacrificial victim, a virgin who will be martyred to their fertility god to secure a good harvest. The plot, however, was not what scandalized Paris…