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.
Josef Bartoš
Josef Bartoš is a dance writer and editor-in chief in Taneční aktuality. Graduated from Duncan Centre conservatory got his MA and PhD in Dance Studies from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. At the same time, he received MA in 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.
He is a member of the expert committee for professional dance at the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Czech Academy of Theatre Studies, the Association of Czech Theatre Critics and the Dance Studies Association. In his scientific and research activities he focuses on psychological aspects of dance art. ORCID ID: 0009-0009-4418-2516.
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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.
Restart
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.
Christian Spuck commenting on Czech premiere of Leonce & Lena: „I changed myself and that is why my point of view of the piece changed too.”
Ballet company of the National Theatre in Prague prepared two premieres in one month.
Prague Chamber Ballet's hibernating Carmina Vetera
Resurrection. That is what we can call the current events around the Prague Chamber Ballet. The company, which was founded in the mid-1960’s, enjoys certain sentiment from Czech audiences who keep the company going.
Panthera - We might be the next
Anything you choose from 420PEOPLE’s repertoire, there is one thing you can rely one – you will see excellent dance performances, unmatched in the Czech dance world.
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.
A Bouquet by Prague Chamber Ballet came too late…
The Prague Chamber Ballet spent the last few years searching an identity, a route to be accepted as a full-bodied part of the Czech scene.
Dangerous liaisons – intrigues, wile, betrayal and envy in main roles…
The latest ballet premiere at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava is another well-thought-out move of the ballet company’s artistic director Lenka Dřímalová.
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Josef Bartos
Thank you for your thoughts. One got stuck in my mind – that passion makes us different from AI. Just yesterday I read…I am a dance critic. I am a member of an endangered species