Teatros del Canal in Madrid hosted the company of the well-known French choreographer Olivier Dubois. He brought a new version of his decade-old performance Tragédie, subtitled New Edit, to the Spanish capital.
Josef Bartoš

Josef Bartoš is a dance writer and editor-in chief in Taneční aktuality. Graduated from Duncan Centre conservatory got his MA in Dance Studies from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he is studying for a PhD, furthering his interest in psychological aspects of dance. At the same time, he is MA student of psychology at Charles University in Prague. As an author, he works as well with Mozaika of Czech Radio and Artzóna of Czech Television. As a teacher, he is a lecturer of dance history, theory and management at Czech conservatories as well as at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
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Filip Barankiewicz As Director Of The Year?
At the beginning of October, the National Theatre Ballet published the following on its Facebook profile: “Dance Europe magazine has announced the CRITICS' CHOICE poll.”
Pura Danza – Full-time neoclassicism with a touch of irony
At the beginning of October, the Teatro Real in Madrid hosted a premiere called Pura Danza (Pure Dance) put together by Spain's leading ensemble Compañía Nacional de Danza and its director Joaquín de Luz.
Moritz Ostruschnjak: “I cannot make a piece without it being political per se.”
The Zero Point Festival brought to Prague the work Tanzanweisungen by German choreographer Moritz Ostruschnjak shortly after the same piece was presented at the Flora Theatre Festival in Olomouc.
Commander – About Children Who Had Their Own Version Of Truth
Mid-June saw the premiere of the recent multi-genre project Commander performed by the Czech dance and theatre company Farm in the Cave.
QUESTIONABLE BPM GASPING FOR BREATH…
In early April, the Czech National Ballet presented this season’s last premiere bpm. The abbreviation should stand for beats per minute, which is a term referring to the heart rate or rhythm of a music piece.
"We don't want to monetize the artistic experience", says Petr Dlouhý about Pay What You Can
Studio ALTA has come up with a new “pay what you can” admission system. The audience can now choose from five price offers regardless of the seat they end up occupying.
Ostrov! – Environmental crisis through a Czech lens
Ostrov! (Island!), the new creation by Jana Burkiewiczová, provoked an unexpected reaction in me: I had to return to La Fabrika the very next day since I felt like having missed something very important.
Radio Free Cunning Little Vixen: Tale of freedom narrated through dance and voice
When the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit Europe in March 2020, the South Bohemian Theatre ballet company was busy rehearsing Petr Zuska and Štěpán Benyovsky’s new ballet Radio Free Cunning Little Vixen.
David Hinton: “The way you make a good dance film is not by simply filming a good piece of theatrical dance.”
Dance Film Festival Prague is going to happen in May, but organisers of this event already have now prepared a little teaser for its audience.
Petr Zuska on postponed première of Radio Free Cunning Little Vixen: “Creating a choreography to spoken word in specific and tricky.”
The preparations of the production of Radio Free Cunning Little Vixen were cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic days before the première.
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In the past days, the news has been all but positive. However, apart from the downsides that media tend to discuss over and over again, on a daily basis, the current situation has a positive face, too.
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