Dance Australia

The Rite of Spring

This is a stunning production, and an incredibly worthy, if overdue, opener to the 2022 Adelaide Festival.

WHEN Pina Bausch’s TanzTheater Wuppertal made its Australian début at the Adelaide Festival in

1982, it showed Pina’s experimental dance theatre works 1980, Blaubart and

, making a huge impression that rippled through the Australian dance and theatre worlds. In the intervening years the company has brought several of her other dance theatre works to our shores,, created in 1975 early in her tenure as director at

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