Although living in Leipzig for some time now, I’d never really explored the meaning behind the tram stop telling me Krystallpalast Varieté Leipzig. When the opportunity came up with an invite from a friend to attend the seasonal show Riskant at that venue earlier this summer, I thought, yes, let’s do it!
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60 minutes is not a long time, but BATS manages to evoke love, playfulness, fear, hate, loneliness, and more.
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It was clear everyone was proud to be able to honour Samara's tireless dedication with the Caroline Neuber Scholarship of the City of Leipzig. This Saturday we get to see and hear what she's been up to during her residency here.
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Shaking with emotion, the singer places her mobile phone on the music stand. She picks up the microphone. The Leipzig Gewandhaus is hushed and tense. Struggling to hold her voice steady, the young woman in western dress sings the lyrics relayed to her phone via Twitter. It is a new protest song direct from the
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I have a thing about theatre. I want it to be either utterly exhilarating and breathtakingly brilliant or so lamentably, gut-twistingly inept as to be a delicious and hilarious spectacle. That’s probably quite mean. It’s also probably quite true of a lot of people. Theatre can take you on a journey that film can’t. You
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“Art is changing the world” – Pussy Riot I spoke to Olga Borisova, key performer of Pussy Riot’s four-woman “Riot Days” anti-war tour. Along with fellow group members Taso Pletner, Masha Aljochina, and Diana Burkot, she will be aiming to change the world through art. They are performing at the Leipziger Täubchenthal on Friday, 9
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