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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Found a great weblog today. Infrequent posts (fortunately more frequent than the ones at La Vie Viennoise since I got lost in my business in Slovakia in the last six months) but good ones. Items you may wish to read: The implosion of the music business beginning strangely with F.D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and Peter Drucker’s management analyss. The article concludes with case studies of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Peter Gabriel discussing in a serious way what might replace it. Despite any claims about deceased actors who snoozed through their Alzheimer’s dementia in the White House, the Soviet Union…
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Nothing prepared me for headlines like this one from the WSJ: Heavenly Tax Havens.
A certain Daniel J. Mitchell of the Cato Institute has been given space to tell us that while “wealthy tax evaders may not be sympathetic figures, especially with those of us who meekly comply with the law…low-tax jurisdictions serve a valuable role in the world economy.”
So those who don’t pay their taxes but enjoy the benefits of “high tax” host nations are bold heroes while the rest of us are meek and stupid sheep!
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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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Falter 30 years Photos Falter 30 year anniversary party in the Ottokrieg Brauerai in Vienna Saturday 22 September 2007.
Leave a CommentWhile working on some WordPress plugins, I found some unbelievable news about abuse of copyright over on YouTube. From the world’s biggest pirate, YouTube has become an unbearable censor of personal expression and free communication. Chris Pederson’s private videos of motor racing were taken down – and he got some nasty legal notifications. However, in the last year I have had three videos removed by YouTube for copyright infringement under the DMCA. Videos The three videos are all of outdoor sporting events filmed as a spectator: two of motor racing at Brands Hatch in England and one of the Red…
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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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