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 ...

For dancer Anique Ayiboe, entering the world of “The Rite of Spring” has been a journey of discovery. The Togolese dancer, who has been traveling and performing with the renowned Pina Bausch ...

In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

Opening is common ground[s], a piece made and performed by Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo. Acogny is known as “the mother of contemporary African dance”, and Airaudo was an early member of Pina ...

As a child in Cape Town, South Africa, Sonia Zandile Constable was expected to find a “serious” career in academics or medicine. That may have happened, except for a fateful tea break her teacher took ...

For dancer Anique Ayiboe, entering the world of "The Rite of Spring" has been a journey of discovery. The Togolese dancer, who has been traveling and performing the renowned 1975 Pina Bausch piece ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – While the mysterious life forces of nature were busy choreographing an early outburst of vernal colors outside Severance Music Center on Thursday evening, guest conductor Klaus ...

In 1913, Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring and Nijinsky’s choreography for Ballet Russes nearly caused a riot in Paris. The music, with its jarring experiments in meter, tonality and dissonance, ...