Quarterly Critic’s Choice
The best and most interesting new releases of the previous three months are awarded a place on the Quarterly Critic’s Choice. Evaluation criteria are artistic quality, repertoire value, presentation, and sound quality. From 2014 onward, the Long Lists are stored directly with each Quarterly Critic’s Choice.
NEW: Long List 2/2026, published on 7th April 2026
Music Film
Dancing Pina
A film by Florian Heinzen-Ziob. Blu-ray, mindjazz pictures 6422680 (Alive)
Pina Bausch’s legacy in two worlds: Gluck’s »Iphigenia« in Dresden, Stravinsky’s »Sacre« in Senegal. Classicism rubs shoulders with archaic modernity. The rehearsal rooms of the Semperoper contrast with sun-baked open studios, the grace of the European ballet ensemble is diametrically different from the powerful dancers of the west coast of Africa. Both groups struggle with the same challenge: to really feel the rehearsed body movements and thus discover the characters of the works within themselves. A ravishingly filmed homage to dance theatre. For the jury: Andreas Kunz