
A large majority of the Prague Dance Conservatory graduates complete their eight years of studies by passing a school-leaving examination and a graduate examination (absolutorium). In the past, the Dance Section of the Prague Conservatory (and briefly also the Music and Dance School) used to provide five years of study; in 1970s, a number of students had been first enrolled to a three-year preparatory school (7th–9th year of elementary school). Many of them became proficient dancers, ballet soloists, choreographers, dance teachers, assistants, ballet masters as well as dance critics and theoreticians in numerous Czechoslovak and then Czech institutions. Some of them were luckier and brave enough to plunge into the swirl of international competition abroad and by no means sank into averageness. Leaving for an engagement after 1989 was a lot easier than making the vital decision of whether to leave a home country and risk not ever coming back. Those who left after 1989 did not have to face the anxiety and homesickness, which, logically enough, played a certain role in the life and work of everybody who went through the emigration experience. Performances by younger classes
Brief dance and ballet performances of the youngest students tend to be less attractive for the audience. However amusing and charming in their fragile imperfection, they



Zdeněk Prokeš
Úvodem bych chtěl moc poděkovat Monice Rebcové za připomenutí velké osobnosti světového tance a choreografie A. Aileyho…Alvin Ailey – „Snažím se oslavovat úspěchy člověka – krásu hudby, tvarů, formy, barvy, světla, textury.“