We’re pinching ourselves - The Rite of Spring is really here! This, the first collaboration between the Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables and Sadler’s Wells focuses on the idea of ‘exchange’ and the results are breath-taking. 🎶 Igor Stravinsky 7-11 June https://sadl.rs/3i9U8CN | Sadler's Wells

Back in the UK for the 4th time only since its creation in 1975: don't miss Pina Bausch's Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) from next week at Sadler's Wells, London, as part of She Persisted. Dancers perform on a stage covered in soil, to the music by Stravinsky played live by English National Ballet Philharmonic. Check out this short extract from this iconic work. | English National Ballet

Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring was premiered on 29 May 1913 and it sparked a riot. It is unlikely that the composer dreamed, amid the maelstrom, that one day the piece would be reinvented in such an inspired way - played by three melodica virtuosos... Shout-out to Melodica Men! | Gramophone