Kirtag is an autumn celebration in Austrian villages which usually lasts a weekend in the first couple of weeks of September. At this year’s Kirtag,…
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In German language, there are many wonderful folk songs and little lyrics. I’ve never been very impressed with the dreary English-language birthday song (apparently under…
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There are few companies in the world who can pull off the first scene of Red Giselle. Boris Eifman puts eight princes on stage in
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As the final show of this summer’s ImPulstantz, Vienna was privileged to welcome the premiere of a new work by underrecognised but brilliant Elio Gervasi.
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Galas are often long affairs. And this one was no exception. Manuel Legris was fortunate to be mentored in his early dance career by Rudolf
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As some of you might know, I recently wrote a long front page article about the struggle to be prima among the ballerinas at Vienna’s
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A new production of Rudolf Nureyev’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s classic at the Staatsoper with a fin-de-siècle set, a child army, and fake moustaches; plus: a
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Girl Sleeping Night Train The colours of the bottle, the shoes and the skirt fascinated me here. The ordinary becomes extraordinary: normally these trains are
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