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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.