International Dance Weeks in the Estates Theatre on January 15, 2012

The 26th season of International Dance Weeks is held by the conservatoire Dance Center Prague and its student agencyInternational Center of Dance. Seminars, workshops and performances are scheduled in the course of January at several places across the Czech Republic. The Prague part of the programme culminates with a gala performance held in the Estates Theatre on Sunday, 15th January 2012 from 7 p.m.

The programme is– as usual – composed of selected works of both Czech and foreign authors and among its highlights boasts the piece 27'52''by Jiří Kylián, on this occasion performed by 420PEOPLE. Another guest is the ballet company based at the South Bohemian Theatre, led by Hungarian choreographer Attila Egerházi,well-known for his collaboration with Ballet Prague Junior. The ensemble is scheduled to perform a one-act balletRun Throughby Egerháziand a jazz-flavoured dance piece Neen-Ya by Václav Kuneš. Another extremely promising author regularly presented by Ballet Prague Junior is a young Belgian choreographer Samuel Delvaux, introducinga piece Chasin' –a postmodern dance "chase" premiered in September 2010.

The organizers have not omitted the new generation of authors either: two of the recent graduates fromthe conservatoire Dance Center Prague and members of the South Bohemianballet have regularly surprisedaudiences with topics, which they usually interpret themselves too–Nikola Šneiderová created a choreographyHladina možnostiand Šimon Kubáň marked his one just with a number–Opus 4. Ballet Prague Junior starts the programmewith a recollection of Christmas – the legendary Rosenwaltzfrom Tchaikovsky's Nutcrackerin Egerházi’s contemporary version and at the very end the same company and author will present a piece called Curtain Up, a dance slapstick "behind the scenes" inspired by the famous ballet interludeWalpurgis Night from the opera Faust by Charles Gounod.

Source: TCP