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Includes 3 performances in the Power Center and Detroit Opera House

Senegalese company École des Sables makes its UMS debut in the 2022/23 Season, performing Pina Bausch’s pioneering The Rite of Spring.
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Pricing
Main Floor
$210 / $190 / $115
Balcony
$195 / $140
Included Performances
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Performance
The Rite of Spring /
common ground[s]
Pina Bausch / Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo, choreographers
Pina Bausch’s pioneering work, one of the first that established her iconic approach to dance theater, is danced by a newly assembled company of dancers from more than a dozen African countries. Rite is paired with a new work created, performed, and inspired by the lives of two remarkable women: Germaine Acogny, the founder of the Senegalese company École des Sables who is widely considered “the mother of contemporary African dance,” and Malou Airuado, who performed leading roles in many of Bausch’s early works as a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
Performance
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