At the Salzburg Landestheater, wild diversity reigns supreme when it comes to dance. Reginaldo Oliveira (born in Brazil, most recently trained at the Bolshoi Academy, and a dancer in Karlsruhe until 2017) is just as partial to classics as he is to original creations or pop-infused collages. He is currently staging his hit production Frida with the Rijeka Ballet—a commute he manages by night, traveling as a bus passenger. It is a mode of transport that the historical VIPs of his latest production, Studio 54, would likely never have boarded; to this day, stars in NYC travel—if at all—underground, via the subway.
In the late seventies, the "big shots" gathered at Manhattan’s Studio 54—provided, that is, that they were eccentric, famous, and notorious enough to make it past the super-disco’s ...
