Lucie Dercsényi

Mgr. Lucie Dercsényi, Ph.D. is a choreologist, dance reviewer and dance therapist.

Following studies at the Dance Conservatory of Prague she completed master and doctoral studies at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (AMU). She danced in the Czechoslovak Song and Dance Ensemble, headed the dance department at an elementary school of arts (ZUŠ), lectured the history of dance and arts at the Dance Conservatory of Prague and the I. V. Psoty Dance Conservatory. She was a director of the Dance Association at the Dance Conservatory of Prague (1998) and an editor and later editor-in-chief of the dance magazine Taneční listy. Since 2008 a part-time pedagogue at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts.

She took a training in Dance and Movement Therapy led by ADTA and TANTER (2005 – 2007), led self-development Dance and Movement Therapy seminars at the I. V. Psoty Dance Conservatory, and workshops at an international conference of expressive therapies Space for Art Therapies II and worked with groups of seniors in the civic association Život 90 (Life 90), groups of parents and children. Currently she also leads movement courses of pre-school children. She regularly publishes reviews and interviews in daily as well as specialist press (Lidové noviny, Taneční aktuality, Artzona) and has published the following studies: Resources for ballet The Strangler by Bohuslav Martinů (AMU 2007) and Dance in the music of Bohuslav Martinů – his ballet compositions (AMU, 2010), A new production of Who is the most powerfull in the world? (Martinů revue, May–August 2013), “Martinů/The Strangler/H317 – A  ballet ahead of its time” (Martinů revue, January–April 2014).