The Rite Of Spring Analysis

Nevertheless, viewers and critics cannot attribute all the themes in The Rite of Spring because she provided an interpretation of the piece not an original work. Café Muller on the other hand is an original work by Bausch. The piece is very rich with information about Bausch's style and techniques as well as her personal background. Growing up observing patrons visiting her parents' restaurant, she had exposure to a wide pool of human experiences and emotions to make the basis for this art work. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph in 2001, Bausch told the interviewer that the café's patrons she watched growing up were a "formative influence" on her view of sexual attractions."It was a place where life happens, and couples have love affairs and fights," she said, "I saw that love was a strong relationship in which anything can happen. For some people, fighting is exciting; life would be boring without it." It was her early window to life. Bausch provides her audience with insight to the world in Café Muller by utilizing one of her signature techniques: repetition. She is known for making her dancers repeat routines to the point of physical and mental exhaustion. To offer
Arlene Croce from The New Yorker wrote in his article "Dancing: Bad Smells" in 1984 : "The rhythm of a Pina Bausch piece is obsessively regular. Bursts of violence are followed by long stillnesses. Bits of business are systematically repeated, sometimes with increasing urgency but more often with no variation at all. At every repetition, less is revealed, and the action that looked gratuitous to begin with dissolves into meaningless frenzy." She describes the café as canteen of a mental hospital, and she describes the work as monotonous with repetition as its only device making it feel ninety minutes instead of its actual duration of thirty five