January 2012

Portlet Media

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Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM
Sat 21 January
Crystal Pite is a dancer and choreographer with courage, passion and love of the theatre, her signature combines sometimes breathtaking technique with zany humour. From 1996 to 2001, the Canadian danced in William Forsythe’s then ballet in Frankfurt, where she now has found a working refuge with her own company at the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. Her troupe’s name is no coincidence: Kidd stands for the outsider, for recklessness, liberty and risk-taking, Pivot on the other hand for technical excellence, precision and change of direction.

Laurie Anderson
Sat 28 January
Laurie Anderson is unique. A timeless musical gem. Hence it is difficult to describe her music, widely dubbed as "electronic". In fact, she doesn’t fit any scheme. Even with the attribute "music" may already be on the wrong track, or at least on a byway of a literal labyrinth of artistic expressions. Laurie Anderson, born in Chicago, resident in New York, is a poet, an actress, a visual artist and a performance artist alike.

Budapest Festival Orchestra
Tue 31 January
The tale about the making of the almost inexhaustible oriental fairy treasure inspired Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov to probably his most famous tone poem: Scheherazade, Op. 35. The internationally acclaimed Budapest Festival Orchestra under the baton of its founder and chief conductor Iván Fischer will guarantee an exuberance not of only Russian-Oriental provenance – because the Spanish rhythms of Lalo’s "Symphonie espagnole" in combination with the splendid young violinist Renaud Capuçon will also ignite enthusiasm. As prelude, however, the austere drama of Brahms’ Tragic Overture: an outstanding musical journey around the globe.