Stravinsky’s ballet sensation of 1913 shocked its first Paris audience. More than 150 versions later, the far-reaching pull of this modernist masterpiece remains irresistible…
when she was a student at the contemporary dance school Parts in Brussels.
Although the music was her starting point, she has jettisoned it for her performance. Masilo asked her musicians to listen to the Stravinsky and absorb its intensity but then compose their own music. Her choreography is based on Tswana, the traditional dance of Botswana, from where her family originate. “I wanted to find a narrative that was not so linear – not just dance, dance, dance and then a maiden who dances herself to death.
This idea of taking one of the centrepieces of the western canon and introducing it to new cultural influences also extends to Seeta Patel’s version ofnext month, with a UK tour later in the year. This piece, for 12 dancers, six men and six women, is an expanded version of her 2019 work, and will be accompanied live by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
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