| Sumario: | In this article, I consider how ecosexuality as a contemporary, emergent critical framework prompts readings of Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring that complement and trouble the centralization of normative gender relations and human exceptionalism. Working with the prominent choreographic features instantiated within the dance, I consider how categories such as female and male, nonhuman and human, are both constituted and destabilized. Drawing from queer, feminist, new materialist, and psychoanalytic theories, I suggest that Bausch's Rite of Spring provides ways of thinking sexuality ecologically, oriented toward the intensification of life beyond the survival of the human.
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