Rite of Spring/common ground[s] programme

Meridian Hall

Produced by Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables, and Sadler’s Wells

The Rite of Spring/ common ground[s]

by Pina Bausch/Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo

October 15, 2022

Photo credit: Maarten Vanden Abeele © Pina Bausch Foundation

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Welcome letter from TO Live Bringing extraordinary international work to the audiences of Toronto is a key component of TO Live’s vision to contribute to the richness of this city’s cultural life, ensuring that we present a diversity of artists on our stages and develop new audiences.

The Rite of Spring/common ground[s] is a superb example of such a touring work, and we are proud to be presenting it as a partner on this North American tour.

Tonight’s two-part program marks the first collaboration between the Pina Bausch Foundation (Germany), École des Sables (Senegal) and Sadler’s Wells (UK). It is a significant achievement that had its genesis in the mutual respect between École des Sables Founder, Germaine Acogny and Pina Bausch. Subsequent to Pina Bausch’s death, the relationship between the Foundation and Écoles des Sables continued to evolve.

Sadler’s Wells own close association with Pina Bausch and their extensive history of presenting her work led Salomon Bausch, Director of the Foundation, to approach their Artistic Director and Chief Executive, Sir Alistair Spalding about co-producing this program, now being experienced around the world.

Pina Bausch was one of the most original and influential artists of the past fifty years, and her gripping interpretation of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring is revered for its power and impact. It is faithfully rendered here by this company of 32 dancers but through an African experience that gives us a deeply affecting new perspective and way of experiencing this seminal choreography The opening work on the program, is the poetic and tender, common ground[s], a new work created, performed, and inspired by the lives of two remarkable women Germaine Acogny, the internationally acclaimed dancer, and choreographer, regarded as the ‘mother of Contemporary African Dance; and Malou Airaudo, who began her professional career as a soloist for Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo before becoming a dancer with Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal ensemble and performing central roles in many of Bausch’s pieces.

Both artists are still active on stage in their seventies, and both are choreographers, professors and grandmothers. This work reflects their histories, emotional experiences, and common ground.

Tonight’s program is also an extension of a long-time association between TO Live and Sadlers Wells that has led to us showcasing leading international companies in the City of Toronto. We are proud to welcome the artists of Écoles des Sables and representatives of the Pina Bausch Foundation in a continuation of that relationship.

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common ground[s]

by Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo and The Rite of Spring by Pina Bausch A Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables & Sadler’s Wells production Co-produced with Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Festspielhaus, St Pölten; Ludwigsburg Festival; Teatros del Canal de la Comunidad de Madrid, Adelaide Festival and Spoleto Festival dei 2Mondi.

The project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe-Institut, and kindly supported by the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

For common ground[s] Creative team Co-Choreographers and Dancers: Germaine Acogny, Malou Airaudo Composer: Fabrice Bouillon LaForest Costume Designer: Petra Leidner Lighting Designer: Zeynep Kepekli Dramaturg: Sophiatou Kossoko Musicians Bass: Adam Davis, Carlota Margarida Ramos Cello: Ana Catarina Pimentel Rodrigues, Mariana Silva Taipa Viola: Wei-Chueh Chen, Alejandro Vega Sierra Violin: Nicolas Lopez, Ana Maria Sandu, Alexandru-Adrian Semeniuc Keyboard: Fabrice Bouillon LaForest Conductor: Prof. Werner Dickel Sound Engineer: Christophe Sapp

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For The Rite of Spring Creative team Choreography: Pina Bausch Music: Igor Stravinsky Original Set and Costume Design: Rolf Borzik Collaboration: Hans Pop World Premiere: 3 December 1975, Opera House Wuppertal Restaging Artistic Directors: Jo Ann Endicott, Jorge Puerta Armenta, Clémentine Deluy Rehearsal Directors: Çağdaş Ermiş, Ditta Miranda Jasjfi, Barbara Kaufmann, Julie Shanahan, Kenji Takagi Dancers Rodolphe Allui, Sahadatou Ami Touré, Anique Ayiboe, D'Aquin Evrard Élisée Bekoin, Gloria Ugwarelojo Biachi, Khadija Cisse, Sonia Zandile Constable, Rokhaya Coulibaly, Inas Dasylva, Astou Diop, Serge Arthur Dodo, Franne Christie Dossou, Estelle Foli, Aoufice Junior Gouri, Luciény Kaabral, Zadi Landry Kipre, Bazoumana

Kouyaté, Profit Lucky, Babacar Mané, Vasco Pedro Mirine, Stéphanie Mwamba, Florent Nikiéma, Shelly OheneNyako, Brian Otieno Oloo, Harivola Rakotondrasoa, Oliva Randrianasolo (Nanie), Asanda Ruda, Amy Collé Seck, Pacôme Landry Seka, Gueassa Eva Sibi, Carmelita Siwa, Amadou Lamine Sow, Didja Kady Tiemanta, Aziz Zoundi With thanks to Korotimi Barro, Vuyo Mahashe, Tom Jules Sammie, Armel Gnago Sosso-Ny Technical team Head of Production: Adam Carrée Touring Production Manager: Imogen Clarke Company Stage Manager: Marius ArnoldClarke Company Manager: Laye Kane Head of Stage: Jeffrey Mitchell Sound Engineer: Dan Harmer Wardrobe Manager: Anne-Marie Bigby Production Electrician: Joe Pilling Stage Swing Technician: Hex Emalia Osteopath: Alexandra Haydon Costume Maker: Petra Leidner Costume Assistants: Mariola Kopczynski (Dakar), Silvia Franco (Wuppertal) With thanks to Petra Boettcher, Keyssi Bousso, Stefan Brinkmann, Ismaël Dia, S. E. M. Abdoulaye Diop, Denise Fertig, Theowen Gilmour, Dr. Massamba Guèye, Dirk Hesse, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Wuppertal), Lani Huens, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Daniel King, Nassy Konan, Abdoulaye Koundoul, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Claudia Lüttringhaus, Pascal Moulard, Abdoul Mujyambere, Balla Ndiaye, Birane Niang, Nicole Pieper, Gráinne Pollak, Madeline Ritter, Chelsea Robinson, Sahite Sarr Samb, Mohamed Y. Shika, Gabriel Smeets, Felicitas Willems, Laura-Inès Wilson, Wuppertaler Bühnen 3

In Pina Bausch was born 1940 in Solingen and died 2009 Pina Bausch Choreographer – in Wuppertal. She received her dance training at the The Rite of Spring Folkwang School in Essen under Kurt Jooss, where she

Photo credit: Wilfred Krüger

Germaine Acogny Choreographer and dancer – common ground[s]

Photo credit: Antoine Tempé

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achieved technical excellence. Soon after the director of Wuppertal's theatres, Arno Wüstenhöfer, engaged her as choreographer, from autumn 1973, she renamed the ensemble the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Under this name, although controversial at the beginning, the company gradually achieved international recognition. Its combination of poetic and everyday elements influenced the international development of dance. Awarded some of the greatest prizes and honours world-wide, Pina Bausch is one of the most significant choreographers of our time.

Senegalese French dancer, teacher and choreographer Germaine Acogny is known as the ‘mother of contemporary African dance’. She studied at the École Simon Siegel in Paris and established her first dance studio in Dakar in 1968. There, she developed her own technique for Modern African dance, combining the influence of dances she had inherited from her grandmother, a Yoruba priestess, with her knowledge of traditional African and occidental dance.

Between 1977 and 1982, Acogny was the artistic director of Mudra Afrique (Dakar), before moving to Toulouse in 1985, where she and her husband, Helmut Vogt, founded the Studio-École-Ballet-Théâtre du 3è Monde. In 1995, she returned to Senegal and established an international education centre for traditional and contemporary African dances, École des Sables.

In 1998, she started her own dance company, Jant-Bi, whose productions include Les écailles de la mémoire – Scales of memory (2008), a collaboration with Urban Bush Women, and notably, Fagaala, based on the genocide in Rwanda and winner of a Bessie Award (2007).

Acogny’s other prominent works and credits include Sahel (1987), YE’OU (1988 – winner of the London Contemporary Dance and Performance Award 1991), Tchouraï (2001), Bintou Were - a Sahel Opera (2007),

Songook Yaakaar (2010), Mon élue noire – Sacre no.2, choreography Olivier Dubois, (2014, based on the original music of The Rite of Spring, winner of a Bessie Award 2018) and A un endroit du début (2015).

Acogny is a respected emissary of african dance and culture and continues to collaborate with schools, dance centres and teach masterclasses worldwide. In 2021 she won the Golden Lion of the Dance Biennale in Venice.

Malou Airaudo Choreographer and dancer – common ground[s]

Born in Marseille in 1948, Malou Airaudo began dancing at the age of eight, at the Opéra de Marseille. At seventeen, she joined the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, where she became a soloist working with Léonide Massine, before joining Françoise Adret and her BalletThéâtre-Contemporain in 1968.

In the early 1970s she moved to New York to work with Paul Sanasardo and Manuel Alum, the latter choreographing the solo Woman of a Mystic Body for Airaudo. It is there that she met Pina Bausch for the first time.

In 1973, she was invited by Pina Bausch to join her in Wuppertal, Germany where the director of the city’s theatres Arno Wüstenhöfer had just appointed her at the head of the Wuppertal Ballet, which she soon renamed the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Airaudo became one of the key figures of the ensemble, creating major roles in various productions, such as Iphigenie auf Tauris, Orpheus und Eurydike, Café Müller and dancing The Rite of Spring as well as in many other pieces.

She was also a founding member of the Parisian dance company, La Main, along with Jacques Patarozzi, Dominique Mercy, Helena Pikon and Dana Sapiro, and worked with choreographer Carolyn Carlson at the Teatrodanza La Fenice in Venice.

From 1984 until 2018, she taught dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen-Werden, and in 2012, she became the Director of the university’s Institute of Contemporary Dance.

Her choreographic accomplishments include Le Jardin des Souvenirs, Jane, Je Voudrais Tant, Schwarze Katze and If You Knew, created from the mid-90s onward for companies such as the Folkwang Tanz Studio, the Ballet de Nancy, the Ballet de Geneva, the Ballet du Nord 5

and Venice Biennale. In the last decade, she has also worked with Pottporus Renegade Theatre creating work with break-dancers like Irgendwo and Verlorene Drachen.

Airaudo has also appeared in the films Talk To Me (2002, dir. Pedro Almodóvar) and Pina (2011, dir. Wim Wenders).

Fabrice Bouillon Laforest Composer – common ground[s]

Musician, writer and composer, Fabrice is the Artistic Director of French FAUN(es) Collectif, alongside dancer Sébastien Cormier. He’s a long-time collaborator of Germaine Acogny (Fagaala, Songook Yaakaar, A un Endroit du Début) and École des Sables. Familiar to the world of dance (original scores for Nora Chipaumire, Urban BushWomen, Pittsburgh’s Dance Alloy Theatre, Kota Yamazaki, Don’t Hit Mama, Patrick Acogny, Cie Virevolt), he’s the co-founder of circus company Hors Surface with performer Damien Droin. He has created and performed several shows including Tetraktys, Boat and Fabulomania. His work spans videogames to pop and rock. Under the alias LaForest he has released two albums, co-written the documentary film Rimanere (Alexandre Lopez), and created and led many art projects designed for rural/remote environments. With Sébastien Cormier and musician Tristan Assant he is touring LaForest as a singer and frontman of a multidisciplinary music/dance project.

Zeynep Kepekli Lighting designer – common ground[s]

Istanbul born Zeynep Kepekli is a London-based designer who predominantly works with light. She has a long-standing collaboration with the Richard Alston Dance Company and Yorke Dance Project. Some of her design credits include: Sea of Troubles (The Royal Ballet); Playground, Between and Within, Imprint (Yorke Dance Project); Dance Journeys (English National Ballet); Collapse (New Movement Collective); Lie of the Land, Unfinished Business, Darkness Visible, Madcap, Burning, Rejoice in the Lamb, Buzzing around the Hunisuccle, Carnival, Cut and Run, Detour, Brahms Hungarian, A Far Cry, Shine On (RADC). Mainly working in dance, her work focuses on architecture and the movement of body and light.

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Sophiatou Kossoko Dramaturg – common ground[s]

Sophiatou studied modern dance and ballet at the Doug Crutchfield Dance School in Copenhagen. She completed her training by doing workshops with teachers, artists, and choreographers from various dance backgrounds.

She obtained her bachelor’s degree ‘Performing Arts – Dance Path’ and continued her studies at the University of Paris 8ème in France.

Sophiatou founded the company IGI, its focus being to create, produce and present artistic projects that combine dance with other disciplines such as singing, music, theatre, and visual arts, to explore the relationships between the world’s cultural differences.

IGI offers a range of educational activities on a regular basis in collaboration with institutions and artists.

Sophiatou choreographed Tchouraï, a solo for Germaine Acogny.

The choreographer Olivier Dubois also invited her to create a piece, Allégorie, for Danswindow. One of her poems is being published in présences by le printemps des poètes.

Igor Stravinsky Music – The Rite of Spring

Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) was acclaimed for his many stage works, including the original ballets Petrushka, Agon, The Firebird, Apollo, Scènes de ballet and The Rite of Spring, as well as the opera The Rake’s Progress. Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, in 1882 and raised in St. Petersburg. He first gained his acclaim in the early 1900s for his compositions for the Ballets Russes, including The Rite of Spring. In Switzerland and subsequently France, he continued his work, composing such works as Persephone and Renard. In 1939, Stravinsky moved to the United States and completed his Symphony in C. Stravinsky remained in the United States until his death in 1971 in New York City, at which point he had a repertoire of more than 100 works to his name.

Stravinksy is revered as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century.

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Rolf Borzik Original set and costume design

Rolf Borzik was born in 1944 in Posen and initially studied drawing and painting in Haarlem, Amsterdam and Paris from 1963 to 1966, then in 1967 graphics and design at the Folkwang School in Essen. Here, in 1970, he met Pina Bausch and from 1973 created sets and costumes for her in Wuppertal, making a decisive contribution to the look of dance theatre. Borzik died in January 1980 at the age of thirty-five.

Josephine Ann Endicott is a trained classical dancer of Josephine Ann the Australian Ballet school and Australia Ballet Endicott Artistic director – company.

In 1973 she was chosen by Pina Bausch to join the The Rite of Spring Tanztheater Wuppertal as a soloist where she danced until her last performance with the company in 2018, at the age of 69. At present she is rehearsal director for many of the older Bausch Productions, including The Rite of Spring.

Jorge Puerta Armenta Artistic director – The Rite of Spring

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After studying on a scholarship at the Center National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, Jorge Puerta Armenta was engaged as a dancer at the Folkwang Tanzstudio in Essen and immediately afterwards in 1997 he became a member of the ensemble of the Tanztheater Pina Bausch in Wuppertal, where he danced in repertoire pieces and created another 8 under Pina’s direction. He also appeared in Pedro Almodovar’s film Talk to Her (2002) and Wim Wender's film PINA (2011).

He has been a freelance choreographer and dancer since 2014. He has internationally commissioned works in Colombia (IDARTES) and Peru, first for research in 2018 and in 2019 for a full co-production between the cultural center of Universidad del Pacífico and the Goethe Institute. He has also worked as co-assistant for Omar Sangare, theater director for the piece “Ivona” in Massachusetts, USA. In 2020 he worked on two Zoom projects: coaching a video-dance workshop (La Factoría/ Colombia) and for the Festival Under Construction/ Wuppertal, an experimental film about a dance workshop co-directed with Chrystel Guillebeaud for people over 60 years old.

Clémentine Deluy After graduating from the Folkwang Universität der Artistic director – Kunste in Essen-Werden, Clémentine joined the The Rite of Spring Company Sasha Waltz&Guests in 2002. In 2006, she became a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal and since 2014 has been a guest artist of the company. Since 2015 she has worked on further collaborations with Sasha Waltz including Romeo & Juliet, Figure Humaine (Elbephillarmonie), Kreatur, Exodus and Rauschen.

Currently, Clémentine is working on pieces by Pascal Merighi, Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, and in 2019, supported by the Globe, Clémentine explored theatrical forms of artistic research in collaboration with Thusnelda Mercy, Jack Laskey and Ben Wishaw. In the same year she also co-directed the restaging of Iphigenia auf Tauris by Pina Bausch for the Semperoper Dresden, a project developed by the Pina Bausch Foundation.

Clémentine also teaches international dance workshops for professional and amateur dancers.

Çağdaş Ermiş Rehearsal director – The Rite of Spring

Çağdaş Ermiş was born in Wuppertal and has a bachelor and master’s degree in dance from the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, Germany. He has been a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal since 2014. Over the course of his career Çağdaş has worked with Susanne Linke, Henrietta Horn, Malou Airaudo, Lutz Förster and David Hernandez, amongst others. He is excited to be working with Sadler's Wells, École des Sables and the Pina Bausch Foundation as a re-stager on The Rite of Spring.

Ditta Miranda Jasjfi Rehearsal director – The Rite of Spring

Ditta Miranda Jasjfi was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. She began classical ballet training in Paris at the age of five before continuing her training back in Indonesia with Farida Oetoyo, and studying Indonesian traditional dances from Bali, West, Mid and East Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Jaipong with various teachers. In 1989, she began studying dance at Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany, and in 1993 became a member of the Folkwang Tanz Studio. In 1994, she pursued an engagement in Tanztheater of the Stadttheater Bremen with Artistic Director Susanne Linke and Urs Dietrich. Since 2000, Ditta has been a dancer with Tanztheater Wuppertal.

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Barbara Kaufmann Rehearsal director – The Rite of Spring

Barbara trained at Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in New York and Paris, Royal Ballet Academy Stockholm, Folkwang University of the Arts under Hans Züllig and Jean Cébron, and with Maestro Alfredo Corvino.

She has danced with the Jessica Iwanson Dance Company, Tanzprojekt München with Birgitta Trommler, the Folkwang Tanzstudio with Susanne Linke, and with Pina Bausch (since 1987).

Since 2002, Barbara has been working as rehearsal assistant for The Rite of Spring, Iphigenie auf Tauris, the Tannhäuser Bacchanal and as rehearsal director for Since She by Dimitris Papaioannou. She has also been a rehearsal director for the Pina Bausch Foundation at English National Ballet for The Rite of Spring and at the Semperoper for Iphigenie auf Tauris.

Additional affiliations include her appearance in the Wim Wender's film Pina (2011) and collaborating on the development of video annotation, oral history projects and direction of documentation at the Pina Bausch Foundation. She was awarded the ‘Isadora Tanzpreis’ in 2012.

Julie Shanahan Rehearsal director – The Rite of Spring

Julie Shanahan was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1962.

She completed all her RAD classical ballet examinations and a Bachelor of the Arts in contemporary dance and choreography.

She worked for two years at the Sydney-based One Extra Dance Company and Darwin Dance Mob before moving to Germany in 1984, working as a soloist dancer till 1988 with Reinhold Hoffmann’s Bremen Dance Theater and Schauspielhaus Bochum.

In 1988, she joined the Tanztheater Wuppertal as a soloist dancer. Besides her role as dancer, she is also a rehearsal director for a number of Pina Bausch repertory pieces including The Rite of Spring.

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Kenji Takagi Rehearsal director – The Rite of Spring

Kenji is from Berlin, Germany, and trained at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen. He was a permanent ensemble member of Tanztheater Wuppertal from 2001 to 2008, the latter year being when he received the German Theatre Prize, Der Faust for Outstanding Performance in Dance for his solo in Pina Bausch’s Bamboo Blues.

From 2008 to 2018 he became a guest artist for the company, as both a dancer and rehearsal director. His work as a rehearsal director includes the restaging of The Rite of Spring at the Paris Opéra in 2010/15 and at the English National Ballet in 2017/19.

Additionally, in 2016 he contributed to the ‘transmission’ project of Pina Bausch’s work, ‘For the children of yesterday, today and tomorrow’, in collaboration with the Bavarian State Ballet. Recently he has performed in various improvisation shows and interdisciplinary stage projects in Germany.

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Meridian Hall Stage Crew IATSE Local 58 Richard Karwat Head Electrician Steve McLean Head Carpenter Marcus Sirman Head of Properties Ross Tuskey Head Sound Operator David Baer Assistant Carpenter Zsolt Kota Assistant Sound Operator Michael Farkas Assistant Electrician – AV Jason Urbanowicz Assistant Electrician St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts Stage Crew IATSE Local 58 Wes Allen Head of Properties, Bluma Appel Theatre Yunier Alvarez Penate Head Technician, Jane Mallet Theatre Jay Blencowe Head Carpenter, Bluma Appel Theatre Benn Hough Head Electrician, Bluma Appel Theatre Keijo Makela Head Sound Technician, Bluma Appel Theatre IATSE Local 822 Susan Batchelor Wardrobe Head, Wardrobe Head, Bluma Appel Theatre Meridian Arts Centre Stage Crew IATSE Local 58 Aaron Dell Head Technician, Lyric Theatre Russell Hawley Head Technician, George Weston Recital Hall Patrick Hales Assistant Head Technician, George Weston Recital Hall Grant Primeau Head Technician, Greenwin Theatre Duncan Morgan Head Technician, Studio Theatre

Pina Bausch Foundation staff École des Sables staff

Sadler’s Wells London staff

Salomon Bausch Founder and Board of Directors Simone Rust Board of Directors Gertraud Johne Project Manager Kathrin Peters Education and Outreach

Germaine Acogny and Helmut Vogt Founders Helmut Vogt Manager Didier Delgado Technical Production Manager Stan Mandef Production Mame Bousso MBaye Production Paul Sagne Coordinator Patrick Acogny Casting/adviser Phillipe Bocandé Accounting Eleine de Graça-Sccientia Communications

Alistair Spalding CBE Artistic Director & Chief Executive Suzanne Walker Executive Producer Bia Oliveira Head of Producing & Touring Ghislaine Granger Senior Producer Hannah Gibbs Sophie Delahaye Assistant Producer Aristea Charalampidou Tour Producer Jordan Archer Marketing Manager Laura Neil Press Officer

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