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Have you ever wished to see the unconscious dance? Have you ever wondered how Sigmund Freud's ideas about the drives and instincts stored somewhere in the depths of our psyche could be expressed through dance?

He has been described as a dancer with the body of a Greek god and the aura of a movie star. He has reached the highest of the highest in the ballet world, and he has done it all, as it were, with grace, a disarming smile and without breaking a drop of sweat. 

Loneliness, fear and moon dust. Prague's Švandovo Theatre hosted the internationally acclaimed mime and choreographer Radim Vizváry for the umpteenth time. 

A guest of the Berliner Festspiele Performing Arts Season, the Israeli Batsheva Dance Company presented Ohad Naharin’s MOMO (2022), a non-narrative, mesmerising piece, strongly characterised by duality.

The National Ballet of Canada has a new resident choreographer, David Dawson, who has served in a similar role with HET Nationale Ballet in the Netherlands.

I have been attending internationale tanzmesse nrw in Düsseldorf for over twenty years. As an exhibitor with a stand at the fair, I have been able to attract international attention and numerous readers and customers for my dance magazine tanznetz.

The artistic directors of all four ensembles of the National Theatre in Prague have announced the performance schedule for the 143rd theatre season. 

Exactly sixty years ago, the first version of Onegin, arguably John Cranko's most famous ballet, premiered in Stuttgart. It would receive its final cut two years later, followed by international acclaim another two years after that, during a tour of the United States.

On the penultimate day of 2024, the Ministry of Education approved the revised Framework Curriculum for Primary Education. For the first time in the history of Czech education, dance is now a compulsory part of the primary school curriculum. 

This year the International Festival of Contemporary Dance La Biannale di Venezia decided to honour two outstanding female personalities. The Golden Lion will be awarded to American choreographer Twyla Tharp for her lifetime achievement, and the Silver Lion to Brazilian performer and director Carolina Bianchi. This year's festival will run from 17 July to 2 August.

Beginning during Berlin Art Week and developing over the following months, the joint curatorship of Sophiensæle, Georg Kolbe Museum, and Haus am Waldsee, presented a retrospective on the body of work of Franco-Austrian choreographer, director, interdisciplinary artist, and puppeteer Gisèle Vienne to Berlin. 

British organization Dancers’ Career Development (DCD) celebrates its 50th anniversary, marking half a century of supporting professional dancers in transitioning to fulfilling second careers. 

Seeing the Paris Opera Ballet’s Paquita on 18 December felt like something of a Christmas miracle. Since opening night on the 5th, the ballet’s holiday run has been repeatedly disrupted by strikes, an increasingly common scenario every December. 

Christopher Wheeldon is a rare talent: He’s known as a master of story ballet worldwide. His pieces are being staged by more and more companies eager to inject a breath of fresh air alongside treasured but overused classics. 

The National Theatre in Prague has chosen Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade for its second ballet premiere of the season.