Walzerwut

A best of Johann Strauss in Wolfgang Mitterer's adaptation is the starting point for a dance piece in which six dancers immerse themselves in an intriguingly apocalypse with Eva-Maria Schaller. The wildly overheated waltz, polka and mazurka concoction scratches fiercely at the surface of a bourgeois society whose motto has always been: “Ignore what you can’t change.” Just as the world staggers to a collapse, Strauss makes place for peace-activist Bertha von Suttner. The ball does end with a bang, but that doesn’t mean the ballroom is closed for good …