Silent Samurai

"We are definitely different," says 49-year-old Linz dance director Roma Janus with a firm voice, describing in brief her work and her team. This includes her assistant Maria Terkamp, ​​the internationally experienced ballet mistress Yuko Harada (who has previously worked with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel and Ashley Lobo in India), and, of course, the 16-member, highly diverse ensemble. Janus enjoys traveling and has always sought out the performatively different. Born in Nowy Sącz (Neu Sandez) near Kraków, she came to Vienna at the age of 19, read theater studies, and wrote her thesis on the Polish director and Auschwitz survivor Józef Szajna. She was to maintain the style of free curating she had developed during her work on the Viennese scene, for example for Elio ...