Reviews

Only a week before the Czech culture sector was forced to close under the country’s second lockdown, Johana Pocková and Sabina Bočková (aka PocketArt) premiered their long-awaited new creation

When the promising company announced its closure early this year (probably due to a near-burnout experience), many fans shed a tear.

May 2020 marked 150 years since the world première of the ballet Coppélia. Over the one and a half centuries, the piece has become a staple in the repertoires of almost all world ballet companies, including Czech ones.

The collaboration between Laterna magika and the Czech National Ballet can be regarded as a special event in the history of both ensembles.

Heroes. We all love them, need them, and worship them. In these difficult times even more than ever. They tend to reflect our desires, dreams, and wishes, they accompany us on our journey...

Shortly before the start of the new season, the National Ballet Brno premiered the ballet Radio and Juliet by the renowned Romanian choreographer Edward Clug.

In today’s society, death is a taboo. It is marginalized. We pretend death does not exist, we cannot talk about it, and we do not want to admit it is a natural part of life.

In the awkward post-lockdown situation, nobody would expect Tanec Praha to programme choreographies by Pina Bausch and Sasha Waltz. 

Shortly before the near end of the emergency state, but still in a time highly affected by the global pandemic, the empty Lucerna cinema (and the virtual world) hosted, I dare say, a unique event – the premiere of Erik Knopp’s documentary Na krev...

This March saw the closure of all theatres because of the COVID-19 pandemic but muses do not remain silent – world-class ballet companies go virtual and for a limited period of time, they release live recordings of their productions.

Within the span of twenty years (that is one generation), the Prague’s National Theatre ballet-goers have had the unique opportunity to experience four stagings of a ballet based on Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin’s famous verse-novel Eugene Onegin. 

The latest première of the North Bohemian Theatre ballet company (Ústí nad Labem) is the original full-length ballet Frida, created by the experienced dance maker Marika Hanousková Mikanová. 

The first première of 2020 has been presented by the Pilsen ballet. The J K Tyl Theatre ballet company has recently received the Balet 2019 Main Award...

Panoptikum (Freak Shows), a new addition to Lenka Vagnerová & company repertoire, is a picturesque noir piece staged as a lavish cabaret fresco. 

The Ostrava ballet company’s dramaturgs are always seeking and inviting interesting foreign dancemakers.