Exhibition “Celebrating Kylián!” starts this week

Exhibition “Celebrating Kylián!” starts this week

This year Czechs will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. In cooperation with our partners we will present a multimedia exhibition honoring our greatest choreographer and his outstanding work, Jiří Kylián.

Last year, Czech-born choreographer Jiří Kylián celebrated his 70th birthday in the Netherlands, his adopted homeland. This year we will celebrate in the Czech Republic and focus on his career as well as on his progressive work beyond the world of dance.  Kylián’s ballets can now be found on the repertoires of the National theatres in Prague, Brno, and Ostrava. Throughout the year all of his 100 works are available for perusal at the Kylian Dance Archive in Prague.
This exhibition was originally presented by Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) in the Zuiderstrandtheater in The Hague as part of the Celebrating Kylián! Festival. The festival that offered programming in The Hague throughout 2017 was organised in honour of Jiří Kylián’s seventieth birthday by Holland Dance Festival, Korzo theatre, Kylián Productions, the Zuiderstrandtheater, and NDT.  The exhibition in the Czech Republic is made possible thanks to the generous support of NDT and Kylián Productions in The Hague. The Celebrating Kylián! exhibition in Prague opens during the 30th International Festival Tanec Praha, with the première of Kylián – Bridges of Time, performed by the Czech National Ballet. The installation marks the one-year anniversary of the Kylián Fund Prague.
The exposition offers an overview of Jiří Kylián’s artistic path and development, mainly as the choreographer for the Dutch Nederlands Dans Theatre in Den Haag, the company he artistically led for 30 years.  There are projections from rehearsals and performances in addition to photographs, graphics, and costumes. Topped up by the small cinema to watch the latest of Kylián’s works for camera. Additionally, there will be a featured exposition tracing the marks that Kylián left here at home.

Opening hours:
11.– 25. 10. 2018  Building B of the National theatre, nám. Václava Havla, Prague 1
11.– 14. 10. open  13:00 – 22:00, 15.– 25. 10.  open 13:00 – 20:00

Source: Kylian Fund Prague