Illuminated in the middle Raw wooden tables in a large closed circle. The audience seated in two rows, around the ring, the second row on a raised platform.
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While some of the companies have provided excellent pictures which correspond to the show at hand – Opéra de Paris, Etienne Guilloteau, Jan Lauwers to name a few – others have offered pictures which have little or nothing to do with the stage performance…. While I understand these dance companies would like to protect their image, at the very least there should be an official Impulstanz photographer shooting every show in rehearsal and offering the company director or manager to approve or disapprove shots from the rehearsal photo session.
4 CommentsI first saw this work or at least the core of it two years ago in the Vienna Volksopera…. There were works by four of the best of independent dance in Vienna that night (Tanztheater Homunculus and Tanz Hotel were two of the others).
4 CommentsAnother one of the poster productions of this year’s Impulstanz, Daniel Leveillé’s new work is graced not only by the strong image of three naked men flying but also by a chillingly poetic title The Modesty of Icebergs ( La pudeur des icebergs)…. The piece is difficult to describe as there was no particular narrative but rather a cyclical repetition of the same movements with an ensemble comprised mainly of three men but augmented at times to as many as five men and one woman.
1 CommentThe main late night haunt of the Impulstanz Festival is the Bürgtheater Vestibule, one of the more charming and elegant bars in Vienna, located within…
Leave a CommentWoman collapses on stage. A bleached out video shows on a large plasma screen on the left hand wall of the theatre.
2 CommentsBare black stage. A girl stands. A fallen chair. The girl rolls on to her back. A single overhead light allumes. Girl rises. Dressed in…
Leave a CommentAfter the Marie Chouinard show in the Bürgtheater, there was a lovely premiere party. At the party, the music was also Bach. At the end…
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