Reports

Tore and Gaia

On 28th and 29th April 2009, Duncan Centre hosted two interesting dancers and their new choreographies: Dora Hoštová with Tore and Dagmar Chaloupková with Gaia.

Posedlost, or a Different Take on Bournonville

Tatiana Vilhelmová is “obsessed” with dance. She successfully demonstrated her talent in the second series of the celebrity show Star Dance where she partnered with professional dancer Petr Čadek. It should come as no surprise then that Čadek was chosen to choreograph the Posedlost (Obsession) project that premiered in the Ponec theatre on April 20.

Anna Polívková and Pan Padlý in Ponec

On a rainy day in February, crowd of spectators gathered in Ponec Theater to watch the solo performance of an actress and mime Anna Polívková called Pan Padlý, which followed after the rerun of the VerTeDance new project Jaja and Papus choreographed by Tereza Ondrová for Veronika Kolíková-Knytová and Robert Janč.

A new staging of the Liberec Theatre: Marie Antoinette / Marquis de Sade

The F.X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec prepared a premiere of the ballet called Marie Antoinette / Marquis de Sade in March. The author of the libretto and a director and choreographer Gustav Skála decided to interconnect a story of two historical characters mentioned in the name of the staging in one performance where he uses music collage from works by A. Salieri, F. Devienne, M. Clementi, J.P. Rameau, J.N. Hummel, G. Paisiello and B. Bartók. Therefore a staging with two acts and twenty four scenes originated. The gloomy acts with Marquis de Sade alternate with the scenes from the life of Marie Antoinette.

Miniatures

The Miniatures performance that is almost a permanent guest on the repertoire of the National Theatre shows members of its ballet ensemble from another point of view because it provides some of them with possibilities to test their choreographic ambitions on the stage of the Estates Theatre. They could do so on Wednesday, 4th March when the audience could judge their strive in ten choreographies; this is a very nutritious and almost an indigestible portion.