April 16, 2020
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The Festspielhaus St. Pölten presented its program for the 2020/21 season on Thursday. The cultural institution has announced numerous international co-productions, but Austrian artists should not be neglected. Especially fans of dance and music theater can look forward to an extensive and varied schedule after the corona-related cultural losing streak.
The house has many Austrian premieres: On September 26, the dance and music theater season should start with “Jungle Book / The Jungle Book” directed by the US star Robert Wilson. Another highlight is the African dance luminaries Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo Pina Bausch’s choreography “Das Frühlingsopfer / common ground[s]”. The South African Vuyani Dance Theater will show “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero”, including the music of the French composer as an a cappella version.
The celebrated Bejart Ballet Lausanne is to show the three-part evening “Syncope / Bejart fete Maurice / Bolero”, Angelin Preljocaj will present Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” in a contemporary way and Josette Baiz wants to present a dance world tour with “D’Est en Ouest, de Melourne a Vancouver” . The Malandain Ballet Biarritz will dance to the music of Haydn and Gluck in “Marie Antoinette”. A replacement date was found on May 28, 2021 for the large-scale “Le Grand Continental” by Sylvain Emard, which was initially canceled due to the measures against the corona virus.
South Korean Eun-Me Ahn will use “Dragons” to explore Asia’s tension between tradition and avant-garde, Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa want to “Planet [wanderer]”Present the tragic love story between man and earth.
Contemporary dance for young audiences will also be offered: dance ensembles from France, Canada and the Netherlands will be shown. There are also three contemporary circus performances performed by the Australian groups “Gravity & Other Myths” and “Circa Contemporary Circus”.
The Festspielhaus also announced concerts of e.g. Hubert von Goisern, Helge Schneider, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Philipp Hochmair. On October 5, the Tonkunstler Orchestra starts the symphonic concert season with Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”. A total of twelve concerts with music by Brahms, Rachmaninow, Mahler and Richard Strauss are on the program, six chamber music evenings round off the program.
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