Extraordinary Dance Projects: Experience the Ecstasy of Doris Uhlich’s ‘Sonne’

2023-10-21 08:30:26 Dance projects by and with Doris Uhlich usually produce extraordinary results due to the special nature of the participants and the content. The premiere of the production “Sonne” in the Festspielhaus St. Pölten was an excessive, sometimes exhibitionistic performance that culminated in an ecstatic finale. Partly cheers, partly irritation. At the beginning the … Read more

Alter Bridge combined hardness with catchiness in Vienna

29. November 2022 Guitarist Tremonti (here at Nova Rock 2017) is among the authors © APA/HERBERT P. OCZERET You can rely on them: For almost 20 years, the US quartet Alter Bridge has been serving up modern rock songs that skilfully oscillate between heaviness and catchiness. The recently released, seventh studio album “Pawns & Kings”, … Read more

Cult director Ulrich Seidl is 70 years old

24. November 2022 Austria’s cinema visionary Ulrich Seidl is 70 © APA/HANS KLAUS TECHT It was not an easy birthday year for Ulrich Seidl. In February, “Rimini”, the highly acclaimed part 1 of a double film, celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale. Then in September, after a “Spiegel” research on the circumstances of the … Read more

“The Würgeengel” doesn’t really take off in the Volkstheater

15. October 2022 “The Exterminating Angel” is colorful in the Volkstheater © APA/Volkstheater Wien/Marcel Urlaub Luis Buñuel’s “Exterminating Angel” is a classic of surreal film, a parable of isolation, cutting off from the world and a detached elite. And thus potentially the work at the time of the lockdown society and the drifting apart of … Read more

Stermann wants to “fight for a single grave” with a solo program

7. October 2022 Dirk Stermann’s new program is supposed to be funny and tragic at the same time © APA/ROLAND SCHLAGER Dirk Stermann is embarking on a solo mission for the first time with his new cabaret “Gemeinbraut”. Instead of in the usual formation with Christoph Grissemann, with whom he moderates the weekly talk show … Read more

Akademietheater shows family play as a graphic novel

4. October 2022 Theater group “1927” relies on animated stage design © APA/Burgtheater/Susanne Hassler-Smith The boundaries between image and text, acting and film, reality and animation are blurred in the productions of the British theater group “1927”: “More than everything in the world” is their latest “graphic novel” which premieres in the Academy Theater on … Read more

Musical “Rebecca” back in Vienna

23. September 2022 Verkaik (Mrs. Danvers) and Latten (I) give each other nothing © APA/ROLAND SCHLAGER It is and remains an unusual representative of the musical genre: Almost 16 years to the day after its premiere, “Rebecca”, the adaptation of the crime novel by Daphne du Maurier, celebrated its premiere again in Vienna on Thursday. … Read more