But in the end the dancers leave the singers to their own devices and return to the other dancers, before a real crossover happens and the singer becomes an integral part of the movement…. But when a creator hasn’t had those opportunities before and does not know when he or she will get the chance again to enjoy those resources, there is a hunger to take one’s chance, to use everything.
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For those who still don’t know or might be reading this sometime in the future and have forgotten, 2006 is Mozart Year in Austria. We’ve been deluged with dance performances centered around Wolfgang Amadeus’s music since the New Year, starting with the Christmas concert at TanzQuartier Wien and following through with Tanz Company Gervasi and others. What we saw tonight at ImPulsTanz may be the last round. And it’s a good thing. For some reason, dancers and even more so, choreographers have a lot of difficulty dancing to Mozart. This surprises me as Mozart has always been famous for his…
3 CommentsImPulstTanz 2006 is fantastic. The limited coverage you see here has nothing to do with the programme. I’ve missed wonderful things, like the opening night with Anna Teresa de Keersmaekerr which I have from reliable sources as unbelievably wonderful. My apologies for the limited ImPulsTanz coverage this year. My commercial business is growing by leaps and bounds. We have new employees and new offices and new clients and there is only one of me. I’ve also spent a lot of my discretionary time in the last few months more or less successfully learning German. Finally truly learning that the only…
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The final result of their artistic investigation were three twelve hour shows in Vienna’s Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, the same venue used by the Bürgtheater for their monthly experimental one-off productions and site of many of the after performance parties for shows in Akademietheater…. I had gone to the Alternative Dream Asylum in the company of choreographer Mala Kline who sat down at one of the computer stations and commenced a wonderful impromptu reading from the screen of the free verse concocted by the Choreographer’ Venture participants.
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But musically it felt too much like a direct assault on our sensibilities rather than a complex voyage…. If you are missing punk from the eighties dressed up in a modern sensibility PONI is not to be missed.
Leave a CommentYesterday one of the choreographers about whose piece I had written expressed surprise at the style of my reviews. She felt that there was not as much analysis of the idea behind the show as she would like.
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The curtain is wide open and A drum set in the middle back of the stage…. Two women pace back and forth at the front of the stage examining spectat A man crosses the stage in woman’s shoe.
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From left to right: a panel written over English, the image of the artist pressed up against the wall, a panel written over in German: The initial message is this: hey dude i have talent, i’m just here waiting for god The artist bends over to each panel to change the writing gradually…. After about seven minutes, she finally rises and comes into the darkened theatre via the spectator entrance.
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