Performance | Monday, March 14th, 2016 | San Sebastián, Spain

L'Après-midi d'un faune
Scène d'Amour
Sacre

Considered one of the key works of modernism, it is a hundred years after the genesis of Igor Stravinsky’s »Le Sacre du Printemps« that Sasha Waltz takes on the Mariinsky Theatre’s offer to engage with this extraordinary piece of musical and dance history. Its title translates to »The Rite of Spring«. The strikingly archaic, tension-charged and angular composition is characterised by a strongly emphasised rhythm, precipitous drops and a layering of constantly repeating musical motives. Its many almost noise-like dissonances and expressionist sonic feel have made the work one of the most famous pieces of music of the modern avant-garde.
Earlier large-format pieces of Sasha Waltz’, »Na Zemlje« (»On Earth«, 1999), »Medea« (2007), »Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008) «, and »Continu« (2010) have already showcased elements of her research into rites and group dynamics which now culminate in »Sacre«.

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