‘It’s mind-blowing for me’: Boris Charmatz on leading Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal
Forever (Immersion dans Café Müller de Pina Bausch) review – a heartbreaking redux
February 2024
The week in dance: Nelken; Dark With Excessive Bright; São Paulo Dance Company – review
Nelken review – new generation restores the bloom of Pina Bausch’s classic
December 2023
Marion Cito, ingenious costume designer to Pina Bausch, dies aged 85
Cito, who had been a dancer herself, spent 40 years working for Tanztheater Wuppertal
August 2023
Edinburgh festival dance: After All; Dances Like a Bomb; The Rite of Spring – review
Solène Weinachter’s funeral guest is a triumph of sound and vision. Elsewhere, a tragicomic study of ageing, and a thrilling Rite of Spring returns
February 2023
‘It’s a grief and a healing’: why dance-makers love The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky’s ballet sensation of 1913 shocked its first Paris audience. More than 150 versions later, the far-reaching pull of this modernist masterpiece remains irresistible…
July 2022
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: Dancing at Dusk, Maryland and more
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes international festivals, Gemma Arterton in The Duchess of Malfi and Christopher Plummer in The Tempest
June 2022
The Rite of Spring review – a bruising collision of life, sex and death
A Covid-dogged company of African dancers triumph in an unbearable yet riveting revival of Pina Bausch’s take on Stravinsky
Stage flight: theatregoers aflutter after bat swoops into London show
Winged intruder ‘put in a fantastic performance’ after arriving in Sadler’s Wells auditorium amid a staging of Pina Bausch classic
Pina Bausch: The Rite of Spring review – gut-wrenching brilliance
Sadler’s Wells, London A company of dancers from African countries deliver Bausch’s shattering vision of Stravinsky with devastating force
April 2022
Pina Bausch: Orpheus and Eurydice review – piercing sadness
Dancers and singers share the lead roles in Tanztheater Wuppertal’s lucid version of the myth, set to Gluck’s score
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Kontakthof review – the miseries of mating
June 2020
Sun, sand, human sacrifice: Rite of Spring danced on a beach as the world shut down
They flew to Senegal to create an electrifying version of the Pina Bausch classic with her son. Then coronavirus struck. Would they have time to dance the horrifying masterpiece for a film crew at sunset?