Arts critics are used to trashing sub-par performances with negative reviews, but they are rarely on the receiving end of an all-too-literal smear campaign. More:
February 15, 2023 | 12:02 amBERLIN — Arts critics are used to trashing sub-par performances with negative reviews, but they are rarely on the receiving end of an all-too-literal smear campaign.
This weekend though, the chief choreographer of Hanover State Opera smeared the face of a dance critic with dog excrement after she gave a negative review of his latest show, German newspapers wrote., was attending the premiere on Saturday of the balletDuring the interval, Marco Goecke, one of the production’s choreographers, confronted Ms. Hüster in the theater’s crowded foyer and smeared her face with dog excrement, newspapers said.
Mr. Goecke, who is Hanover State Ballet’s chief choreographer and director, threatened to ban Ms. Hüster from the theater before removing a bag filled with the feces and wiping its contents in Ms. Hüster’s face,In the Dutch MountainsMs. Hüster wrote that watching the show, which recently opened at Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague, was like being “alternately driven mad and killed by boredom.
Hanover State Opera apologized for the episode and said on Monday that Mr. Goecke was being suspended with immediate effect and barred from attending the theater. “This is not only about the future of Marco Goecke, but also about the future of the over 30-strong ballet ensemble,” the theater said in a statement. “The theater management has a duty of care towards every member of the ensemble.”“This humiliating incident is not only an act of bodily harm but also an attempt to intimidate our free, critical view of art,” the newspaper said. —
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