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Sun, sand, human sacrifice: Rite of Spring danced on a beach as the world shut down by Lyndsey Winship

They flew to Senegal to create an electrifying version of the Pina Bausch classic with her son. Then coronavirus struck. Would they have time to dance the horrifying masterpiece for a film crew at sunset? Dresses rippling in the wind, sand beneath their feet, a sky fading to a heathery dusk as dancers sway and thrash to the urgent, ominous chords of Stravinsky's music. This is Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring as it's nev…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM on June 23, 2020

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