ImPulstTanz 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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Olympus DM20
I am now the lucky owner of an Olympus DM20 audio recorder (the most expensive 128 MB of portable storage in existence at €200+).
I needed a voice recorder to be able to do interviews for this website, mainly in dance. In particular it is absolutely impossible to keep up taking paper notes when interviewing Darrel Toulon.
It’s a very difficult job finding a good quality voice recorder which is at all compatible with Apple computers. All of Sony’s voice recording gear was out of the question as it just won’t work with Macs. After a good start with crossplatform compatible recorders, Panasonic is no longer in the voice recorder game at all.
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This is what Saturday night at 4 in the morning in front of the Vienna Staatsoper looks like. Operagasse amd the ring is one of the main places for nightbuses to come. Many of the people out here would have come from Passage a late night discotheque created in what was an underground crosswalk. This is nice Vienna night atmosphere.
Vienna Staatsoper Nachtbus
Vienna girl at night
Vienna State Opera at night
Vienna is one of the most beautiful places in the world to live. I bless each day I live in this wonderful city.
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In the Eroica Hall of the Austrian Theater Museum in the Lobkowitz Palace, I was both a fortunate participant and observer of a wonderful talk given by Christa Ludwig, a former opera star about her time in the limelight together with Maria Callus.
Christa Ludwig in the Austrian Theater Museum
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At the end of the Christa Ludwig’s talk, Vienn State Opera principal dancer Simona Noja danced a short solo a five minute excerpt from Maria Callus’s famous performance of Violetta (Verdi’s La Traviata)…. I shot vertically as I find the horizontal frame of a television extremely unattractive for a dance solo, particularly in a room like the Eroica Sall in the Austrian Theatre Museum.
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I shot vertically as I find the horizontal frame of a television extremely unattractive for a dance solo, particularly in a room like the Eroica Sall in the Austrian Theatre Museum…. For more pictures of Simona Noja as Maria Callas, please visit my friend photographer Anton Hoellersberger who took some wonderful photographs during the filming.
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Aware of his audience – in large part families with children – Toulon shifts the focus from the grands pas of the fairies into some kind of excursion into a Disney-like world of fairytales…. It makes a nice allusion to the end of Charles Perrault’s and Battista’s original versions of the Sleeping Beauty story (dropped in the Brother Grimm’s Dörnroschen, the Petipa Sleeping Beauty and in the Disney film – which appears to be based closely on the Petipa ballet in turn based on the first half of Perrault.
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