Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Three dance pieces after Igor Stravinsky
Tuesday 5. Nov. // 7.30 – 10.30 p.m. / Festival opening (reception afterwards)
From 12 years
Schauspielhaus
“Le sacre du printemps” (“The Rite of Spring”) is the most important ballet of the 20th century. It was premiered exactly 100 years ago in Paris in 1913 and became a great scandal due to its unusual nature. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) created with its music – composed for the Compagnie Ballets Russes and choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky – a key work of the modern age.
euro-scene Leipzig has put together three of the most innovative choreographies of the moment in very different styles for one evening:
David Wampach focuses entirely on Stravinsky’s theme and rhythm in his disturbingly humorous duo “Sacre” (“Sacrifice”). Tero Saarinen, a major figure on the international dance scene, combines dance and multimedia art in his outstanding solo “Hunt” (“Jagd”), shown 171 times in 32 countries to date. And Georges Momboye, figurehead of African dance, and his 12 dancers spiritedly fuse Western modernism and African rites.
1st choreography: David Wampach, Montpellier, France
Sacre (Sacrifice)
2nd choreography: Tero Saarinen, Helsinki, Finland
Hunt
3rd choreography: Georges Momboye, Paris, France
Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Sacre:
www.davidwampach.fr
Premiere: 22.06.2011, Festival Montpellier Danse, Agora / Studio Bagouet
Production: Association Achles, Montpellier
Co-production: Festival Montpellier Danse / Centre national de la danse, Pantin /
Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté, Belfort / Le Cratère, scène nationale d’Alès
With the kind support of Institut français, Berlin and Leipzig &
French Ministry of Culture and Communication / DGCA, Paris.
Hunt:
www.terosaarinen.com
Premiere: 02.06.2002, La Biennale di Venezia, Teatro Piccolo Arsenale
Production: Tero Saarinen Company in collaboration with La Biennale di Venezia
and Automne en Normandie, Rouen
Le sacre du printemps:
www.momboye.fr
Premiere: 09.03.2005, Biennale nationale de danse du Val-de Marne,
Fontenay-sous-Bois, Salle Jacques Brel
Production: Compagnie Georges Momboye / Biennale nationale de la danse du Val de Marne
Co-production: Ville de Fontenay-sous-Bois / Théâtre Jean Vilar, Vitry-sur-Seine /
Théâtre André Malraux, Rueil Malmaison / Théâtre l’Olympia, Arcachon
With the kind support of the Rudolf Augstein Foundation, Hamburg
NOTICE:
On Nov. 06, 4:30 p.m., documentary film “1913 – Dance on the Volcano” by Dag Freyer.
On Nov. 07, 4 p.m., film recording of choreographies by Vaslav Nijinsky, Sasha Waltz, Dietmar Seyffert and Pina Bausch
Sacre
Performance
Sound: Mikko Hynninen
Cast: Tamar Shelef, David Wampach
Hunt
Dance solo
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Multimedia: Marita Liulia
Lighting design: Mikki Kunttu
Costumes: Erika Tutunen
Dancer: Tero Saarinen
Le sacre du printemps
Dance piece
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Dancers: Stéphanie Florent, Lorna Goiame, Alicia Bigot, Fabrice Mahicka, Leïla Pasquier, Léopold Gnahore, Daudet Grazai, Raphael Kaney Duverger, Nestor Kouame, Jean Kouassi, Bilé N’Draman, Louis Pierre Yonsian
