Petra Dotlačilová

In its third week, the TANEC PRAHA festival presented two personalities of contemporary European choreography: the Belgian Jan Martens and the Irish Oona Doherty. 

Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1), one of Europe’s most prominent dance companies, paid a visit to London last April. Sadler’s Wells theatre hosted their triple bill, featuring two newer works, premiered in The Hague last year, and one “classic” by the former longstanding director of the company Jiří Kylián.

In early spring, Prague traditionally hosts Czech Dance Platform, a showcase of “the most interesting Czech contemporary dance and movement theatre.” 

The ballet company of Paris Opera opened the new season with a daring premiere entitled Cri de cœur (A cry from the heart). The title is very fitting: the work puts on stage liminal situations, we do hear a lot of outcries. 

The Czech Dance Platform (CDP), which took place in Prague from 24th to 26th April , presented once again a selection of local contemporary dance productions.

You may have felt like having had enough of Baletky (Ballerinas). The book of choreographer and performer Miřenka Čechová had provoked heated debate even prior to its publication, following the mere release of its annotation and a few interviews.

The Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm is preparing for the fifth and last premiere of this season, which will take place on the 17th of May 2019.

From the 1st to 4th of April 2019, the twenty-fifth edition of the Czech Dance Platform took place. The Programming Council selected eleven performances...

The director of the Royal Swedish Ballet Nicolas Le Riche (leading the company since 2017) certainly does not deny his origins.

Last Tuesday, a debate over the professional organisation Vize tance took place in Studio Alta. As it showed, the organisation had been lacking leadership for a couple of months and is now close to its end.

Only a week before Christmas, rather discreetly and without much promotion, the dancer and choreographer Martin Talaga ...