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Nov 30, 2023 · Malou Airaudo, left, and Germaine Acogny in their duet “common ground [s]” at the Park Avenue Armory. Stephanie Berger, via Park Avenue Armory. By Gia Kourlas. Nov. 30, 2023. The Rite of ...
Dec 14, 2023 · The performance pairs with common ground[s], a new collaboration between longtime Bausch dancer Malou Airaudo and Germaine Acogny, the influential dance instructor and founder of École des Sables. The double bill opens with Airaudo and Acogny’s duet.
Malou Airaudo. Show. Nov 29th - Dec 14th, 2023. Park Avenue Armory. New York. Duration. 90 min. All credits. In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting Park Avenue Armory for the presentation of The Rite of Spring by Pina Bausch, and common ground [s], by Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo.
Rite is paired with a new work created, performed, and inspired by the lives of two remarkable choreographers, professors, and grandmothers: Germaine Acogny, the founder of the Senegalese École des Sables who is widely considered to be “the mother of contemporary African dance,” and Malou Airaudo, who performed leading roles in many of ...
Dec 1, 2023 · common ground(s) – a duet by and between Malou Airaudo, a founding member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, and Germaine Acogny, the matriarch of contemporary African dance – roots itself in female friendship. Attired in sinuous black dresses with deep V backs, the duo weaves their unique voices into a contrapuntal melody of self-care ...
- Erin Bomboy
Since her retirement in 2018, Airaudo has been involved in rehearsing new productions of pieces from the Pina Bausch repertoire, such as Iphigenie auf Tauris at the Semperoper in Dresden. Since 2019 she has been artistic director – along with Zekai Fenerci – of the dance collective Renegade. In 2020 she and Germaine Acogny created a duet ...
And Airaudo, born in 1948 and an original member of Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, has danced the role of the Chosen One numerous times and has the Bausch aesthetic in her bones. Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo in common ground [s] | Credit: Maarten Vanden Abeele.
