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For the third year in a row, the Taneční aktuality editorial staff has been preparing a printed bilingual Special Edition for you. 

Dancers and dance artists are not used to publicly voicing their complaints. Maybe that is why they are not heard so often and are among the few who do not lament over the present crisis.

These days, the preparations should have been underway for Cirk La Putyka‘s biggest project Cesty (Journeys) in O2 universum, Prague.

On 9 April 2020, the Czech government approved the first 1.07 billion rescue package in support of the arts and culture. It was presented by the Minister of Culture Lubomír Zaorálek...

Hana Třeštíková, the Prague City Councillor for culture, and the online cultural overview GoOut has launched a nation-wide project to support theatres, concert halls, clubs and artists

Early March, the directors of the two largest Czech ballet companies unveiled the premieres for the upcoming season. 

The CDP Dramaturgical board has selected seven works which will be presented at the Czech Dance Platform from 24 to 27 November 2020.

The international project Roundabout Europe, which aims at supporting outdoor art, has selected five projects to become part of the initiative this year.

Filip Zahradnický received two awards at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris on 2 February 2020. He was presented with the Special Price of the Académie Fratellini and the Special Price of the Jury.

After thirty years, the Music and Dance Faculty reopens a distance learning programme  - a part-time BA degree in Dance pedagogy will be available starting in the 2020/2021 academic year.

The ninth edition of the contemporary choreography showcase BALET 2019 was dominated by Pilsen’ JK Tyl Theatre and its production of The Taming of the Shrew, choreographed by Alena Pešková.

On the occasion of the première of Don Quixote in the Slovak National Theatre on 22 November 2019, the dance theorist and critic Jana Hošková was presented with the Petipa Heritage Fund Award.

Cirk La Putyka is preparing the biggest production in its history which is scheduled to take place in O2 universum on 25 and 27 April 2020. 

The Spitfire Company is preparing the première of the last instalment of the Constellations trilogy, subtitled My Son Looking to the Sun.

Martin Divíšek has been nominated in the photo contest Czech Press Photo (the category of Art and Culture) for his series of photos from rehearsals and performances of the Czech National Ballet’s Swan Lake.