Reviews

Trajal Harrell, the 2018 Tanz magazine dancer of the year, has been the artistic director of Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble since 2019. His largest dance piece to date has been running at the Schiffbau-Halle since 2021.

The long-serving artistic director of Ballet Zürich, Christian Spuck, is moving to the Berlin State Ballet next season. This winter, Zürich theatregoers join Spuck’s dancers and the Philharmonia Zürich for a grand farewell. 

It is undoubtedly a good thing that the work of the distinguished choreographer John Neumeier is finally entering the repertoire of the Czech National Ballet. 

Riders, Lenka Vagnerová’s new show, is the “remake” of Jezdci that came to life ten years ago. The choreographer feels the work was a cornerstone for the establishment of her dance company and her major achievement as an author.

Teatros del Canal in Madrid hosted the company of the well-known French choreographer Olivier Dubois. He brought a new version of his decade-old performance Tragédie, subtitled New Edit, to the Spanish capital.

At the end of November, Berliner dance collective laborgras together with ensemble Continuum presented Das Fest to a sold-out Theater im Delphi, a dance piece bringing contemporary dance and Baroque music together. 

The Studio Maiselovka in Prague's Old Town is home to 420PEOPLE under the direction of dancer, choreographer and artistic director Václav Kuneš.

The fact that SPOLK is worth following was clear from its previous projects. It is a group of multitalented performers, the graduates of the Duncan Centre Conservatory – Kateřina Jabůrková, Adam Kmenta, David Králík, Žaneta Musilová, and Ester Trčková.

At the beginning of October, the Teatro Real in Madrid hosted a premiere called Pura Danza (Pure Dance) put together by Spain's leading ensemble Compañía Nacional de Danza and its director Joaquín de Luz. 

Unlike the previous one, filled with full-length shows, the new season of the Ballet of the National Theatre in Brno (NdB Ballet) focuses on mixed bills. 

The work by Miřenka Čechová, Markéta Vacovská and Alice Koubová, Let's Connect Yesterday, deals with the theme of crisis and adaptation to it. 

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. 

The 420PEOPLE company has opened the 2022/2023 theatre season with the premiere of the dancer production Ever with the choreography by the artistic director Václav Kuneš. 

The Letní Letná festival has taken root on the plain in Prague for nineteen years of its existence. It is associated with a pleasant and action-like atmosphere that enriches the city while the holidays slowly disappear. 

Mid-June saw the premiere of the recent multi-genre project Commander performed by the Czech dance and theatre company Farm in the Cave.