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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.

Radim Vizváry, the Thalia Award winning and internationally acclaimed mime artist, director, and teacher, became the Artistic Director of the National Theatre’s fourth stage, Laterna magika, earlier this year.

The Focus Agency, specializing in marketing and PR, ranked the Brno National Theatre Ballet’s Baletiště among 2020 top ten ads. 

The third and last part of the project focusing on the relationship of contemporary art, choreography and contemporary dance is dedicated to the question of bodily motion...

The odds are constantly changing for culture, but the organisers of the International Festival of Contemporary Circus and Theatre Letní Letná believe there is always something to look forward to.