Linz Posthof

Tanztage: A tender vision around a creepy author

Everyone can understand the language of dance: Laterna Magika from Prague and the Czech choreographer Lenka Vagnerová enchanted the Tanztage audience at the Posthof in Linz with brute-tender visions of (Edgar Allen) "Poe", the sharp-tongued poet of eccentric thoughts and dark literature.

In the black stage space, the rhythm of the heartbeat determines the first images and movements before the narrator frees himself from a mountain of books and Poe's characters begin to wreak their absurd, fantastical havoc.

They play with our visual habits, people are shrunk, feet become hands, some mythical creatures carry their heads between their legs. It is a great amazement that sweeps over the audience, not only when the dancers seem to float weightlessly across the stage.

Barbapapa and Perchten
The costumes (Eva Jirikovská) create a cosmos of their own, bringing Poe's (nightmare) dreams to life between Barbapapa and Flinserlweiber, between fatsuites and perchten-like creatures.

Embedded in grandiose music and light projections, Laterna Magika and Vagnerová show their virtuoso play with "Poe": an opulent gift to the senses! Wonderful!

The next highlight of the Dance Days at the Posthof in Linz: on Friday, April 12, the São Paulo Dance Company will be presenting a three-part evening to mark the anniversary of "Anton Bruckner 2024" and honoring Upper Austria's most famous composer with a world premiere.

Milli Hornegger