Ballet company of the National Theatre in Prague prepared two premieres in one month.
Interviews
Interview with ballet master Curtis Foley: “I like going into institutions, shaking them up a little and giving them something new and fresh”
Meeting a young artist, who has devoted his time and energy to dance teaching and coaching of professional dancers, is a truly uplifting experience.
Interview with Michal Krčmář: "Even ballet evolves and changes with every generation".
I’m meeting Michal Krčmář after more than three years. We are in Brno, where he is preparing for his guest appearance in Jaroslav Slavický’s renewed première of La Bayadère.
Interview with Helena Kazárová, a teacher, director and choreographer: “I wanted to be a dancer.”
We have known each other for many years. We met for the first time as students in the Ledebour Palace, which then housed the Dance department of the Music Academy of Performing Arts...
Mário Radačovský: “It’s necessary to take risks, we can’t expect to be always successful.”
Mário Radačovský, a Slovak native and the current artistic director of the Brno National Theatre ballet, has been the head of the second biggest Czech company for five years.
“When working on a new piece, I enjoy even the pre-première stress” says Marika Hanousková about her new role as Liberec Ballet’s Artistic Director
I met Marika Hanousková in one the Liberec theatre’s changing rooms, right after the reprise of Margaux Thomas‘ The Little Prince.
Jiri Bubenicek on the premiere of The Trial: “Kafka basically laughs at life.”
The Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm is preparing for the fifth and last premiere of this season, which will take place on the 17th of May 2019.
MICHAL ŠTÍPA: “SITTING HELPLESSLY IN THE AUDITORIUM IS A BRAND NEW FEELING FOR ME.“
How is the Czech ballet star, long-time first soloist of the National Theatre in Prague, getting used to his new role?
Krzysztof Pastor on Dangerous Liaisons: “Eroticism in dance is important but not scandalous anymore.”
Dangerous Liaisons is a well-known eighteenth-century epistolary novel and a 1988 movie classic, but it has also been adapted for theatre...
Bridges of Time: In honor of Jiří Kylián: “He watered us like plants and let us grow.“
“Fantastic, fabulous, amazing.” That is how three world choreographers describe their work with Jiří Kylián. Patrick Delcroix, Roslyn Anderson and Cora Bos Kroese used to work in Nederlands Dans Theater under his lead...
Jaroslav Slavický’s 70th Birthday: “Hard work will always pay off.”
Today we are celebrating the birthday of one of our prominent dancers and classical dance teachers, Jaroslav Slavický. The former first soloist of the National Theatre Ballet in Prague and long-term director of the Dance Conservatory of the City of Prague looks back at his eventful life...
With Filip Barankiewicz about his first season in Prague
We met just a few days before the 2017/2018 season was over. The artistic director of the National Theatre ballet company came in a big hurry ...
Who is Honza Kodet?
The choreographer Jan Kodet needs no long introduction. However, not everybody has had the opportunity to know him personally...
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