Café Muller/the rite of spring at Teatro di San Carlo

In 1975 Pina Bausch has his version of "the rite of spring by Igor Stravinsky, test-bed for some of the greatest choreographers of the ' 900, including Maurice Béjart, Martha Graham and Vaslav Nijinsky, author of the controversial first representation in 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. The reinterpretation of the German artist is never out of the Repertoire of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, the company she founded in 1973. Thirty dancers, 15 men and 15 women, some shirtless, others in reading, dancing on a stage covered with clay: a dry and violent rite for the designation of the propitiatory sacrifice girl. Already in this work we can see the deepest roots of the revolutionary language of the author, who, in 1978, creates "Café Müller", perhaps his most autobiographical work and known. This "piece" of Bausch is still a real manifesto for theatre artists and dance, a creation born out of music by Henry Purcell. The choreographer called it a "lamento d'amore", a poetic metaphor for the difficulty of a genuine contact between human beings.