German choreographer Pina Bausch is one of the giant figures of modern dance. Critics say her work is bold and visually arresting -- she's choreographed pieces where the stage is covered in dirt or ...

A strange, bewitching ceremony took place this weekend at Zellerbach Hall. 17 stagehands marched onstage at the show’s intermission, ripped up the gray Marley floor, unfurled a massive dusty black ...

Dancing at Dusk — A Moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (image courtesy polyphem Filmproduktion) In mid-March, as the sun set on a beach in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, 38 dancers gave a ...

The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...

"Dance, dance. Otherwise, we are lost." That is what we hear from the last voice we encounter in Wim Wender's extraordinary documentary "Pina." It belongs to choreographer, teacher and contemporary ...

Performances in N.Y.C. A company of dancers from across Africa perform Bausch’s canonical work around the world. “I’ve always felt that this was an African dance,” said Germaine Acogny. Dancers, drawn ...

At its premiere in 1913, Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring shocked audiences and divided critics. The ballet centred around a straightforward yet brutal narrative – a community ...

Bimeras Cultural Foundation is proud to launch the third edition of the internationally acclaimed iDANS Festival of Contemporary Dance and Performance. Numerous innovative performances related to the ...

This kind of carefully constructed, deeply felt drama is about as far as you can get from the postmodernism and Euro-trash that were to come. The sincerity—the earnestness, even—seems almost ...