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Bausch's vision and approach are immediately distinctive, and often angst-ridden. The Rite of Spring was the last of her works to feature a coherent narrative. Since then, she's created collages of movement, fragmented sequences of speech and gesture.
Bausch has said, "I keep making, time and again, desperate efforts to dance." When her performers do dance, it's often ironic or humiliating. She has created several mocking ballet scenes, as when a dancer stuffs bloody meat into her pointe shoes. Bausch's dancers can show masochistic levels of commitment. In The Rite of Spring, they are ready to dance to the point of exhaustion.
More than that, they're part of a very personal rehearsal process. Bausch questions her dancers, who answer in speech or movement. The questions cover memories, relationships, responses to particular situations. She might ask them to imitate one another, to do something they are ashamed of, to act out a mood. Sometimes the prompt is just a word or a sentence. The answers give Bausch her raw material: gestures, dialogue, scenes, which she builds into stage works.
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