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The Institute for Choreology of the Faculty of Music and Dance of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague announces a call for papers for an international conference Dance Research and its Institutional Background in the Contemporary Cultural and Social Context.

The project Dance and Performing Arts Criticism in Europe, a collaboration of Czech Dance News and Performing Arts Hub Norway, organizes a three-day seminar for emerging European dance critics and writers during KoresponDance Festival in the Czech Republic.

Open panel discussion will take place 24th April in Prague and online. What is the status of a dance critic in Europe, what are the conditions, obstacles and pleasures of dance writing? What does dance writing mean to the development of dance?

Having received funding from the EEA and Norway Grants 2014-2021 in 2020, Dance News was able to launch its first international project called Dance and Performing Arts Criticism in Europe...

The POCKETART company in co-operation with Jaro Viňarský and Lucia Kašiarová with the support of Tanec Praha z.u. / PONEC – the dance venue are calling for professional artists for their new project with working title CORPORATE.

We are looking for authors and draft articles addressing current issues and exploring the subject of the human body and its reflection in the field of dance and movement. 

Michal Štípa is going to quit his job as a ballet artistic director after three years. He announced his decision at the beginning of the current season...

Taneční aktuality’s bilingual print magazine, Special Edition 2021, which focuses on the subject “Dance and education”, is hitting the shelves of selected stores these days and is also available for purchase in a digital format.

On Tuesday, 28th September, 2 p.m. (CEST), the Dance and Performing Arts Criticism in Europe project organises an open panel discussion that will address alternative performance and writing formats, and the relationship between dance and words.

Markéta Perroud, who has been a close associate of the PONEC founder Yvona Kreuzmannová, has become the new artistic director of the PONEC Theatre. 

The autumn period of the TANEC PRAHA festival will open with William Forsythe’s A Quiet Evening of Dance on 11 September 2021. 

In the 2021/2022 season, the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre will offer 22 premiere titles to their viewers: seven operas, nine dramas, three ballet productions, and three musicals.

Aerowaves holds an annual open call for emerging choreographers working in geographical Europe who want to become one of the Aerowaves Twenty. 

Apply to be one of the eight writers who will discuss Writing about Dance. The project Dance and Performing Arts Criticism in Europe, a collaboration of Czech Dance News and Performing Arts Hub Norway, organises a three-day seminar for european emerging dance critics and writers

The international workshop Writing about Dance (in the Time of Corona), organised by the Czech online magazine Taneční aktuality (Dance News) in cooperation with the Norwegian partner Performing Arts Hub Norway, took place from 5 to 8 July 2021.