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Homunculus: Wiener Küche

His show Unter dem Glassturz at Semper Depot garnered little critical praise while privately the Homunculus dancers were furious to see their talents wasted, complaining both about the action which involved a lot of standing around and lying on the floor and Bienter’s imperious manner (quite frankly standard practice in the ballet rehearsal rooms) and his refusal or inability to take advantage of their own invention and fantasy…. Selimov’s Oh it’s Vienna is the best piece of work I’ve seen from Homunculus – and while I only saw it in a rehearsal performance, I believe time will show Oh it’s Vienna to be one of the lasting works of contemporary Austrian dance.

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Sleeping with the Enemy: Dr. Nicole Haitzinger

This fall I inscribed myself for the Tanzquartier Wien’s Augen für Tanz program.There was two historical lectures, a theoretical section, a dance workshop and now we come to the heart of darkness – two seminars on dance analysis.I was able to arrive early and meet the previously unknown to me Dr. Nicole Haitzinger before the seminar.

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ImPulsTanz 2006 Coverage

ImPulstTanz 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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