The Rite of Spring?

As previously discussed, The Rite of Spring - the original 1913 Ballet Russes-Nijinsky production - is the key balletic event that fired my interest in dance when I was a teenager - reading about it: needless to say I was not a teenager in 1913.

Ever since, I have longed to see a production of this ballet, ideally Millicent Hodson's painstakingly researched recreation of that original production. More recently I have become interested in versions by Maurice Bejart and Pina Bausch.

So I don't know what to make of this event at DIGITFEST 2011 (10-12 June) at The Lowry.

The Rite of Spring

By Igor Stravinsky

Staging by Roger Bernat based on choreography by Pina Bausch.

Members of the audience are given three-channel headphones and welcomed into the performance space to the sound of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, one of the leading ballets from the last century, of which Pina Bausch made a historic version in 1975. Several voices can be heard – different ones on each channel - voices in parallel that diverge and overlap. Spectators play the leading role in this immersive show that is both a game and choreography.

I don't really understand whether there is any dancing - and if there is, who's doing it...

DIGITFEST 2011