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The international workshop Writing about Dance (in the Time of Corona), organised by the Czech online magazine Taneční aktuality (Dance News) in cooperation with the Norwegian partner Performing Arts Hub Norway, took place from 5 to 8 July 2021. 

It is a pressing matter that has permeated the past decades. The more up-to-date than ever it may be in this coronavirus-stricken time. Our Mother Nature.

The Taneční aktuality editorial team are in the process of preparing the fourth year of their bilingual publication, with this year’s main focus being “Dance and education”. 

The 33th TANEC PRAHA  International Festival of Comtemporary Dance and Movement Theatre welcomed to Prague for the first time ever Dimitris Papaioannou. The artists gave 70 performances in Prague and other 21 cities

Apply to be one of the eight writers who will discuss Writing about dance. 

The Grand Prize and the Audience Award of the Dance Film Festival has been presented to the Czech dance film, Delimitation, directed by Tereza Vejvodová, with dancer and choreographer Markéta Jandová in the leading role.

On 15th June at 2 p.m. (CET), the new project Dance and Performing Arts Criticism in Europe organises an open panel discussion that will address the challenges and issues encountered by dance critics in the time of pandemic.

The TANEC PRAHA international festival of contemporary dance and physical theatre is keeping up preparations for its 33rd edition.

The National Theatre Brno ensembles have prepared 18 premieres for the 2021/2022 season. Some of the titles have already been staged and later rescheduled during the past two seasons affected by the pandemic.

Taneční aktuality, the provider of the online platform Czech Dance News, presents a new series of international debates “Focus on Dance”, dedicated to the various aspects of and professions within the art of dance. 

Studio Alt is going to present a new programme cycle in 2021 focused on performance art. The aim of the cycle is to provide continual presentation of male and female artists as well as to cultivate the genre of performance art and share different approaches to making art within diverse artistic communities.

2020 Theatre Critics’ Awards (previously called Alfréd Radok Awards), based on a survey conducted by the Svět a divadlo magazine, were announced on 3 February 2020.

Slamdance Film Festival 2021 presented Tereza Vejvodová’s short film Delimitation fusing dance art and experimental film formats as part of the category of narrative shorts. 

Lenka Vagnerová & Company are starting a new dance studio at Na Košince 8 Praha 8.

“Dance and Performing Arts Criticism in Europe” is a new international project that aims to network, and to strengthen the status and expertise of European dance critics.