BALANCHINE BAUSCH
Performances
Ballet
Balanchine Bausch
Stravinsky
George Balanchine / Pina Bausch
From 7 to 21 November 2026
Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company and Orchestra
Ph. Credit: |
| Conductor | IDO ARAD |
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Programme
| Apollo |
George Balanchine, choreography The performance of “Apollo”, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with the George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust. |
| The Rite of Spring A piece by Pina Bausch |
Pina Bausch, direction and choreography New production Teatro alla Scala |
In brief
In the spirit of Stravinsky, timeless masterpieces, pinnacles of art and dance that have made history. A unique, highly anticipated event: for the first time, La Scala, its artists, and its audience will be overwhelmed by the telluric force of one of the most powerful readings of Le Sacre du printemps, the one created by Pina Bausch in 1975 for the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Emotional rawness, of rare expressionist power, earthy and dramatic in the viscerality of an ancient ritual, a true foundation of contemporary dance. Fundamental to 20th-century ballet is Apollo, which opens the evening, in the brilliance of Balanchine’s style, which in 1928, at the age of 24, achieved international recognition and began his lifelong partnership with the composer.
