ImpulsTanz [ENA] Some choreographers respond to a divided country with lament; Eun-Me Ahn responds with a rainbow, a gayageum, and a techno beat. At the Volkstheater, Korea's most exuberant living choreographer gave North Korea Dance its Austrian premiere as the anchor of ImPulsTanz 2026's Fokus Korea strand, and the seventy-five minutes that followed were as generous and politically clear-eyed a piece of contemporary dance.   [Full story...]

Salzburger Festspiele [ENA] At sixteen, Mozart already knew how to write a diva an aria that would make to gasp. What he did not yet know — could not have known — was how to make an opera seria psychologically watertight from the first bar to the last. That contradiction is the drama of Lucio Silla, and it is exactly what this semi-staged Salzburg reading, given at the Felsenreitschule, chose to expose rather than to varnish.   [Full story...]