Despite her inadvertent role as a poster child for the current Vienna minimalism/conceptualist/anti-dance movement, Hölbling doesn’t feel any particular group affinity…. Any choreographer foolish enough to listen to what curators say, instead of his or her own artistic instinct, is putting not only artistic integrity but his or her work at risk.
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One could say that Vandekeybus and De Keersmaeker are the two most influential Belgian choreographers (Jan Fabre is missing from this list, but for much of his career Fabre has been more a theater director than a choreographer)…. Her stage presence was always remarkable but in Kline’s year with Ultima Vez she has developed an astonishing physical side to her dancing which will hopefully turn up in some of her own projects (she is leaving Ultima Vez at the end of the Spiegel tour to return to her own work).
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The first premiere of the ImPulsTanz season was a new co-creation from renowned Belgian choreographer Anna-Teresa de Keersmaeker and French performer and choreographer Vincent Dunoyer at the classic Volkstheater in Vienna…. Sister provides a clear enough demonstration that a movement-based and established choreographer Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker can do deconstructionist and conceptual dance as well or better than those making a career of those genres.
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A review of Nacht – Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker’s restaging of three ballets Quartett Nr. 4 (Béla Bartók) 1986, Die Große Fugue in B Major (Beethoven) 1992 and Verklärte Nacht (Schönberg) 1995.
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For the moment there doesn’t seem to be a suitable candidate within the Staatsoper and Volksoper troupe (the one male dancer whom I’ve seen in Vienna who might have been able to carry the show was let go last year Harald Baluch)…. If ballet directory Gyula Harangoza would bring in a couple of top-notch teachers (perhaps one native Russian star for the large Russian contingent) to personally train his female leads (that’s the system used in Moscow at the Bolshoi and in St Petersburg at the Marinsky: a private coach for each leading dancer), he has the talent in the stable to push the level of dance in Vienna up a level.
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It turns out that Joni Mitchell is back at work on an amazing antiwar production, of all things a ballet.She is still highly motivated by politics:“Humbly I hope we can make a difference with this ballet,” she told him, speaking of her outrage about the foreign and environmental policies of the United States…. We’re wasting our time on this fairy tale war, when the real war is with God’s creation.
Leave a CommentI am a trancehead, I like it, and I believe the German scene has come close to getting it perfect, would love more than anything to go there…. I even had a discussion with my father, and got him to understand that it’s more than just **thump*thump** He sees it as a natural regression to when we were all in our mothers womb, listening to the heartbeat.
Leave a CommentImportant Notice from the Dance Section – January 2007 Dance on Screen Production Fund (Pilot Program) – Next deadline February 15, 2007 is SUSPENDED Please note the upcoming February 15, 2007 deadline for the Dance on Screen Production Fund (Pilot Program) has been suspended. Please check our website www.canadacouncil.ca for updates regarding the Dance on Screen Program (however, you will receive updates via email in the future).
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