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In this double-bill production, the Bay Area premiere of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring is performed by an ensemble of more than 30 dancers from 14 African countries. The companion piece common ground[s], also in its Bay Area premiere, is a new duet co-created and danced by two septuagenarians—Germaine Acogny, known as the “mother of African contemporary dance,” and Malou Airaudo, a longtime dancer with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.