One of the more wonderful dance performances I saw this year was in the open air in MuseumsQuartier on 4 May. After what has been a truly terrible season at TanzQuartierWien with close to nothing except conceptual choreography or over the hill performers, I was close to giving up on the season. It appeared the dance highlight of the year in 2005-2006 in Vienna was destined to be a restaging of John Cranko’s Eugene Onegin. Happily the Tanz Company Gervasi pulled a rabbit out of the hat in May, using the entire inner courtyard of MuseumsQuartier in a stunning use…
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For those who still don’t know or might be reading this sometime in the future and have forgotten, 2006 is Mozart Year in Austria. We’ve been deluged with dance performances centered around Wolfgang Amadeus’s music since the New Year, starting with the Christmas concert at TanzQuartier Wien and following through with Tanz Company Gervasi and others. What we saw tonight at ImPulsTanz may be the last round. And it’s a good thing. For some reason, dancers and even more so, choreographers have a lot of difficulty dancing to Mozart. This surprises me as Mozart has always been famous for his…
3 CommentsImPulstTanz 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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I am now the lucky owner of an Olympus DM20 audio recorder (the most expensive flash card in existence at €200+ for 128 MB). The DM20 does an outstanding job recording voice audio in the field and blows away its less expensive brethren, the Olympus WS-100, WS-200, WS-300, WS-310, WS-320.
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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.
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In the Theater Museum of Vienna in the Eroica Hall, 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.
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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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