Prague Chamber Ballet in 2018/2019 Season

Prolínání (Pražský komorní balet). Foto Michal Hančovský.

Prolínání (Pražský komorní balet). Foto Michal Hančovský.

The soloists of the Prague Chamber Ballet have just returned from their South Korean tour and now the company, coached by the ballet master Linda Svidró, is entering the 2018/2019 season, welcoming four new members – Tereza Kučerová, a former member of Brno National Ballet, Michal Kováč from Pilsen, Tereza Straková from the Brno Conservatory, and Iveta Krmelová from Prague Dance Centre.

At the very start of the season, the company has several occasions ahead. A fragment from the choreography Prolínání (ENTWINE) will feature in the Award Ceremony of Zlatá Praha festival at the National Theatre‘s New Stage on Saturday 22 September 2018. The ceremony is broadcast live on the Czech Television cultural channel ČT art. On Monday 24 September, the Prague Chamber Ballet will present three pieces – On an Overgrown Path, From My Life and Black Mirror – accompanied by Zemlinsky Quartet. For On the Overgrown Path, the string quartet will be joined by the clarinet virtuoso Igor Františák. The performance will take place in Ostrava’s Church of St. Wenceslas and will be broadcast by the Czech Television as part of this year’s 100th anniversary of Czechoslovakia celebrations and on occasion on the 90th anniversary of Leoš Janáček’s death.
In the upcoming 2018/2019 season, the company plans to stage Petr Zuska’s full-length ballet Kytice with an original music score composed by Ondřej Brousek the youngest. “The new premiere is still scheduled for this year; however, I must admit our company is struggling for existence,” says Ladislava Jandová, the director of the Prague Chamber Ballet. 
“The Prague Chamber Ballet has been representing Czech culture abroad for half a century and it has performed public cultural service in Prague and in many regions of the Czech Republic. But it’s been under-funded for a long time, it lacks the facilities and basic economic conditions necessary for a company’s vitality. The current financial situation of the PCB is no longer sustainable. This June, we published the Petition for Saving the Prague Chamber Ballet on our website

www.prazskykomoribalet.cz and we keep collecting signatures.”

Source: Art Institute – Theatre Institute and Czech Press Office

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