Kritikerumfrage - Jahrbuch 2018

1. Aufführung des Jahres / Production of the Year 
2. Choreograf/in des Jahres / Choreographer of the Year
3. Tänzerin des Jahres / Female Dancer of the Year
4. Tänzer des Jahres / Male Dancer of the Year
5. Kompanie des Jahres / Company of the Year 
6. Erfreulich war ... / Positive development
7. Ärgerlich war ...  / Negative development

Ora Brafman, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem Post
1. Marie Chouinard Company in The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Turning images by Bosch into a three-dimensional celebration of pleasures and pains
2. Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Lisbon, for her Bachantes. Witty, funny, curious work of bizarre nature, yet captivating in its wildly original perceptions
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4. Hu Shenyuan for portraying Yu Ji, concubine of Lord Chu, in Under Siege by Yang Liping. With minimalist and contained action he exposed a multitude of emotions
5. Gauthier Dance Company, Stuttgart, in Nijinski by Marco Goecke. They expressed through movement, forms and rhythms the mutual impact of interwoven emotional textures and art
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7. ... that in such troubled times in our country, politically and morally, politicians try to influence art‘s content and censor its products

Manuel Brug, Berlin, Die Welt
1. «Formosa ...