La Scala Ballet streams a Le Sacre du printemps rehearsal for World Ballet Day
Josephine Ann Endicott, who danced in Pina Bausch’s original Tanztheater Wuppertal, leads the session with Breanna O’Mara, Scott Jennings, Massimo Murru and Antonino Sutera.
La Scala Ballet is marking World Ballet Day today, Thursday 29 October, by streaming a studio rehearsal of Pina Bausch‘s Le Sacre du printemps on the theatre’s YouTube page at 12 noon (Milan time!).
This year’s World Ballet Day takes “How Stories Are Made” as its theme, which chimes with what is happening in La Scala’s ballet studios. The company, directed by Frédéric Olivieri, is taking on Bausch’s artistic world and language for the first time in its history, with one of her most powerful and enduring works.
In the studio
The rehearsal is led by Josephine Ann Endicott, artistic director of the restaging for the Pina Bausch Foundation and a dancer in the original core of Tanztheater Wuppertal. She is joined by Breanna O’Mara and Scott Jennings, a more recent generation of rehearsal directors, and by La Scala’s ballet masters Massimo Murru and Antonino Sutera. Filmed in the Sala Cecchetti by Annachiara Di Stefano and Costantino Lodolo D’Oria, it features the full cast of the piece.
The theatre says the studio work means encountering a language and a style that put its dancers to the test, drawing them towards a way of expressing themselves that “comes from a deep investigation of one’s own being”.
On stage from 7 November
Le Sacre du printemps is part of the Balanchine Bausch/Stravinsky double bill, which runs from 7 to 21 November. La Scala calls it “a memorable event” for the theatre, its company and its audience: a production that has to be experienced live and that, half a century after it was created in 1975, still has an intense and powerful presence on stages around the world.
The rehearsal is on Teatro alla Scala’s YouTube page on Thursday 29 October at 12 noon (Milan time).
