Wienner Walzer
600 x 500 cm Papier Installation with Natural Pigment Vienna 2014
Dancers: Olga Esina and Kirill Kourlaev
The artist asked Olga Esina and Kirill Kourlaev, both soloists of the Vienna State Ballet, who
have been leading the annual New Yearʼs Concert for many years, to dance a Viennese
waltz on a paper prepared with red pigment in front of an audience. Moreover, the score and
the request to the dancers was to enjoy a moment of the waltz as if the dance couple—also
in real life a couple with a daughter—would dance it for themselves. Delicately abstract like
a flower print and firm and determined like a confession of love at the same time, the redand-
white ballet shoe tips on the paper show themselves circularly in the elegant, sliding
movements of a valse ballet.
