Leaving the world at 58 still in the prime of his strength after a successful election cycle, Jurg Haider will remain an icon of Austrian independence.
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Renato Zanella is not one to count out. Now that the weight of administration is no longer on his shoulders, he seems to have found his muse again.
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I’d like very much to see some of the work Ratmansky created while in Moscow. Created might be the wrong word, as many of the works seem to be recreations of lost works, like the “Flames of Paris”. Ratmansky in the end – even in the short piece I saw – was always about deconstruction. Rather than the matter itself, Ratmansky wanted to look at the illusion: Meta-choreography.
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What has happened at the Staatsoper is that a generation change has taken place. Nearly all of the senior generation that had grown up under the old system are gone. As well as Mlles Tamburi and Sollak, Niki Adler has also left the Staatsoper. There are apparently no real replacements for these dancers, eager to put on their own choreographic works.
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A late Saturday night wandering through Vienna with the Willi Dorner company (13 October 2007). bodies in urban space is a wonderful sculptural event. It’s really not dance, although only dancers or acrobats could perform it convincingly. All of the statues are comprised of live dancers.
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Here is one of from the DanceWeb closing party 11 August. DanceWebber Nina Kurtela from Croatia was on a real riff:
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Amjad is what they have brought back for us. Lalala Amjad 1 If one was wondering what it might be like to live in the time of Tchaikovsky and go to the ballet, while ballet was new and alive (not so much a collection of worldwide museum pieces like Swan Lake and Giselle and La Sylphide and Don Quixote) – La La Human Steps offer us that excitement…. Part way through Amjad, Lock stops the dance to show us a film on three screens – to shoot the film Lock brought in award-winning cinematographer André Turpin, well known for the beauty and subtlety of his work in feature films like Maelstrom.
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When the show starts Ann Liv Young is in a white leotard with her dark nipples visible through the white cloth and with an enormous pregnant belly…. You missed plastic horses You missed a Christian radio show bestrewn with live musical performance and obscene call ins. You missed small plastic horses across the stage with a wooden toy castle – the world of fairy tales.
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