Sacre Rehearsal – Film by Pina Bausch (1987)
'Sacre Rehearsal' – A rehearsal document by Pina Bausch (1987)
During the shooting of her film The Plaint of the Empress Pina Bausch was told that the lead dancer performing the role of the Chosen One in The Rite of Spring had fallen ill. The performance was scheduled for the following evening so Pina Bausch called off the filming and immediately organized a rehearsal in order to prepare Kyomi Ichida for the role. Some of the film crew also came to the rehearsal room. Recognizing an opportunity, they began to film the rehearsal, which was already underway.
Pina Bausch led Kyomi Ichida through the choreography step by step, movement after movement, covering the different phases of this, the work’s key scene. The atmosphere of stillness and concentration in which the rehearsal takes place is admirable, and the beauty and originality of the choreographic ideas that come to Pina Bausch are extraordinarily clearly expressed.
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Claudia Irman, Lutz Förster, Kyomi Ichida, Hans Pop and Pina Bausch during a rehearsal for the piece The Rite of Spring (from the film Rehearsal Sacre).
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