Petra Dotlačilová

Petra Dotlacilova studied Italian Philology at Charles University and Dance Studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (PhD in 2016), specializing in eighteenth-century European ballet and theatre. She also received a doctoral degree in Theatre Studies at Stockholm University, which she completed with a dissertation Costume in the Time of Reforms: Louis-René Boquet Designing Eighteenth-Century Ballet and Opera (September 2020).

Since 2014 she has participated in the research project “Performing Premodernity”, which brings together an interdisciplinary research group of international academic and artistic scholars devoted to studying the musical and theatrical ideals, practices and conditions of the late eighteenth century. Between 2015 and 2017 she collaborated on the project Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe "Ritualdesign für die Ballettbühne: Konstruktionen von Volkskultur im europäischen Theatertanz (1650–1760)" at Leipzig University. She published in several Czech and international journals and books. In 2013 she published her Master thesis with NAMU publishing house under the title The Development of Ballet Pantomime in Europe of the Enlightenment, in 2019 she co-edited anthology Body Dance Costume, published by Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

Apart from the academic research, she regularly publishes reviews, articles and interviews on dance topics in Taneční aktuality and occasionally also on other platforms, e.g. Svět a divadlo, ArtZóna ČT, Živá hudba, Hudební rozhledy, Tanec (SK), Dansportalen (SE).

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Reviews 3. 10. 2022 – Petra Dotlačilová

Cri de cœur – Dancers of the Paris Opera Find their Voice

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. 

Reports 11. 5. 2022 – Petra Dotlačilová

Czech Dance Platform is European

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.

Reviews 14. 6. 2021 – Petra Dotlačilová

metaBALLERINAS – The Importance of Raising Your Voice

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.

Interviews 18. 5. 2019 – Petra Dotlačilová

Jiri Bubenicek on the premiere of The Trial: “Kafka basically laughs at life.”

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.

Reports 18. 4. 2019 – Petra Dotlačilová

Czech Dance Platform – Diversity, professionality and productivity

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...

Abroad 7. 3. 2019 – Petra Dotlačilová

Swedish Ballet is Dancing Forward in the French Style

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

Columns 6. 3. 2019 – Petra Dotlačilová

Vize tance in danger

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.

Reviews 28. 12. 2018 – Petra Dotlačilová

Faunus or Talaga's Natural Impression

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

Reviews 20. 8. 2018 – Petra Dotlačilová

Baroque Opera-Ballet In the Swedish Style: Drottningholm and Vadstena Akademien an antithesis in approach to early art forms.

Interviews 3. 3. 2018 – Petra Dotlačilová

Three questions for Stefan Żeromski and Louise Maria Arias, assistants on the new dance program 4 Elements in Brno

Interviews 24. 6. 2017 – Petra Dotlačilová

Three questions for... Rachid Ouramdane

Personalities 27. 4. 2017 – Petra Dotlačilová

Prominent dance scholar Roderyk Lange died aged 87

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