Pina Bausch The Rite of Spring - Rehearsals at École des Sables

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Step inside the rehearsal studio at École des Sables, in Senegal. Dancers Franne Christie Dossou, Gloria Ugwarelojo Biachi and Serge Arthur Dodo give an insight into rehearsing Pina Bausch's masterpiece The Rite of Spring with Artistic Direction by Josephine Ann Endicott and Jorge Puerta Armenta. Salomon Bausch, Chair of the Board of Directors at the Pina Bausch Foundation also shares why he wanted to bring this unique project to life, with cultural exchange at its heart.

Available on Vimeo on Demand from 12:00pm BST on 1 July 2020 until 12:00pm BST on 31 July 2020.



Captured before coronavirus lockdowns halted the project, this film offers rare insight into the process behind restaging this masterpiece with a newly assembled company of 38 dancers from 14 African countries.

This co-production between Pina Bausch Foundation (Germany), École des Sables (Senegal) and Sadler’s Wells (UK), should have opened in March 2020 in Dakar as part of a double-bill with a new work created and performed by Malou Airaudo and Germaine Acogny, common ground[s].

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. 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 Goethe Institut and kindly supported by the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

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