March 2012

Portlet Media

3-2010

Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Thu 15 March
The interdisciplinary artist Klaus Obermaier, supported by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, enters the 21st century with "Sacre". He has developed a 3D visualisation using cameras to project the live dancer Julia Mach into a virtual three-dimensional space, with the music directly influencing the virtual presence of the performer and her avatars thus creating a kind of meta-choreography.

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Sat 10 March
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15.
Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique"

Workshops for schools
Thu 8 or Fr 9 March: Tonkünstler Special: Le Sacre du Printemps. Preliminary Workshops
Wed 14 to Fri 16 March: Maura Morales. Improvisation and choreography for pupils aged 12 and above

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra: The Blue Flower
Sat 24 March
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417, "The Tragic".
Robert Schumann: Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G Major, Op. 92.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, "Italian"

Family performances
Sun 25 March: There are days like these …
Three dancers and two musicians set out on a search of magic and adventures in our everyday life. They discover that sometimes all it takes are small changes to see our environment in a new light.

Cristina Branco: Fado Tango
Fri 30 March
Fado Tango – because "fado is like tango, the music of those who are poor or crazy, but have a great soul".

Workshops für Jugendliche und Erwachsene
Wed 28 until Sat 31 March: Tango Festival including Tango X 
During the tango festival and "Tango X" in the last week of March, the Festspielhaus’s motto will be "Everything is tango!" Together with the popular dancers Liesl Bourke, Federico Farfaro and Özgür Arin, you can taste tango for the first time or improve your knowledge in intensive workshops.