When the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit Europe in March 2020, the South Bohemian Theatre ballet company was busy rehearsing Petr Zuska and Štěpán Benyovsky’s new ballet Radio Free Cunning Little Vixen.
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Vrány: Holektiv’s poetic dance film
The human world and the world of birds are closely linked. Though we are politically free, looking at birds makes us hungry for freedom.
Efeméry: Fleeting glimpses from a lift shaft
The Farm in the Cave collective has premiered a short dance film entitled Efeméry (Ephemeras). Originally, it was meant as a live performance respecting the strictest sanitary measures.
Tumor: Carcinogenic romance – Surprising take on a serious issue
Cancer is currently one of the most frequent lifestyle diseases, each of us knows someone who is battling it. So when you go to see a performance whose title includes the word ‘tumor’, you expect a serious, depressive content.
Treatment of Remembering: Expressive imagination
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
I.A.M.A.I.: Confession of decadent dancers on a crossroad
When the promising company announced its closure early this year (probably due to a near-burnout experience), many fans shed a tear.
Coppélia: Hijinks Ostrava style
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.
Bon Appétit! : When tastes start to fade
The collaboration between Laterna magika and the Czech National Ballet can be regarded as a special event in the history of both ensembles.
Pink Samurai: Fresh wind of the new season
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...
Radio and Juliet or What if Juliet did not die?
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.
Odloučení: Accepting death on stage
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.
Kreatur: When raw emotions get scary
In the awkward post-lockdown situation, nobody would expect Tanec Praha to programme choreographies by Pina Bausch and Sasha Waltz.
Na krev: You can‘t uproot yourself but you can still grow
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...
Ballet Gala: live but safe in the time of Corona
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.
Onegin returns to Czech National Ballet
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.
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