Daniela Machová

Daniela Machová is a director of Taneční aktuality. She has an MA (2012) and a PhD (2019) in Dance Studies from Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and a MA in Sociology from the Charles University, Prague (2008). She is currently working as a project manager at the Academy of Performing Arts.

Texty autora

Open talk Working slow: from the left Hild Borchgrevink, Lydia Wharf, Lena Megyeri, Lucie Hayashi, Petra Dotlačilová, Anette Therese Pettersen. Photo: Daniela Machová.

Reports 30. 10. 2022 – Daniela Machová

Can the critics afford to slow down?

Time is a scarce commodity, a rarity, a luxury... Tragic as the advent of covid undoubtedly was, it cannot be denied that it allowed us, albeit involuntarily for many, to stop and slow down.

Debate Reflections on the Dance Writing (Lucie Hayashi, Anette Therese Pettersen, Hild Borchgrevink, Petra Dotlačilová, Emily May, Sanjoy Roy). Photo: Michal Hančovský.

Reports 26. 5. 2022 – Daniela Machová – Lucie Hayashi

Reflection on Dance Writing gave an insight into the profession of dance critics

Why and for whom do we write? What does theoretical reflection bring to the development of the art of dance? What are the conditions, obstacles and joys of writing about dance?

Tumor: Carcinogenic romance (Nela H. Kornetová). Photo: Marek Dušek.

Reviews 11. 11. 2020 – Daniela Machová

Tumor: Carcinogenic romance – Surprising take on a serious issue

Cancer is currently one of the most frequent lifestyle diseases, each of us knows someone who is battling it. So when you go to see a performance whose title includes the word ‘tumor’, you expect a serious, depressive content.

Odloučení (Markéta Vacovská). Photo: Michal Ureš.

Reviews 13. 7. 2020 – Daniela Machová

Odloučení: Accepting death on stage

In today’s society, death is a taboo. It is marginalized. We pretend death does not exist, we cannot talk about it, and we do not want to admit it is a natural part of life.

Emergency dances I. - Lion’s Den (Sabina Bočková). Photo: Vojtěch Brtnický.

Reviews 5. 10. 2019 – Daniela Machová

Emergency dances I. – Controlled by media, power and helplessness

Art mirrors its time. Artists reflect - be it consciously or not - what surrounds them, concerns them and disturbs their sleep.

Columns 7. 11. 2018 – Daniela Machová

Grant applications deadline postponed? Suspicious gesture of the minister…

Out of the blue, the Ministry of Culture postponed the deadline for 2019 grant applications to 12 November 2018 earlier this month. Good news? Rather a bunch of question marks…