DIRTY WORK Using natural materials to evoke soil on stage BY BRAD STEINMETZ Crewmembers spread 300 cubic feet of peat onto the stage at the Palais Garnier for Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring. For the full series of images and further discussion of the dirt stage used in the production, please visit https://www. operadeparis.fr/en/magazine/the-soil-of-the-rite-of-spring | Photo by Elena Bauer, courtesy l'Opéra national de Paris. 6 | THEATRE DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY | SUMMER 2022http://www.operadeparis.fr/en/magazine/the-soil-of-the-rite-of-spring http://www.operadeparis.fr/en/magazine/the-soil-of-the-rite-of-spring