The Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky

The Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky

 

Staging by Roger Bernat

based on the choreography of Pina Bausch

The Catalan playwright Roger Bernat proposes a staging of Igor Stravinsky's ballet. Originally, this music was accompanied by the choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky, but Bernat is based on what Pina Bausch did in 1975, and that is already historical. The germ of this production lies in the workshop Making things with people (2009) that Bernat taught in Mexico, where he worked with a score of students for two weeks.

 

This show turns the audience into the protagonist, and pretends to be, in addition to an artistic work, a kind of game: at the entrance of the room each person receives a headset, from which you can select a channel among three. They feel simultaneous voices that diverge and overlap.

 

The work has been seen in the Teatre Lliure and the Flower Market, in Mexico and in Germany (in Postdamer Tanztage).

 

Roger Bernat is a Catalan playwright who began his career in the fields of architecture and painting. It is from this that he awaken his interest in the theater. He then studied Management and Playwright at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, ​​and graduated in 1996 with the Extraordinary Prize. In 1997 he founded General Eléctrica, a Creation Center for Theater and Dance, together with Tomás Aragay. The project lasted until 2001. Among his theatrical projects, there is 10,000 Kg, which received the Special Prize of the Critic of the year 1996, Confort Doméstico, winner of the Prize of the Critic of the Dramatic Text of 1997, Album, Trilogy 70, Good intentions, the Bona Gent cycle, LALALALALA, Amnesia de Fuga, Everything is perfect, Rimuski or Public Domain. This year he won the Sebastià Gasch Prize for paratheatrical arts; in the words of the jury: «to convert social conflict into artistic material». He has also carried out video projects such as Polar, Vero, La Tribu or What everyone knows and nobody dares to say.