Last Tuesday, a debate over the professional organisation Vize tance took place in Studio Alta. As it showed, the organisation had been lacking leadership for a couple of months and is now close to its end.
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Czech National Ballet announces 2019/2020 premieres
The first premiere of the 2019/2020 season will be Jiří Kylián’s avant-garde piece Gods and Dogs that will become part of the production KYLIÁN – Mosty času...
Romeo and Juliet to the 80th anniversary of Brno World Premiere
Prokofiev’s ballet drama Romeo and Juliet had the world premiere in the National Theatre Brno in 1938 choreographed by the legend of the Brno ballet Ivo Váňa Psota.
Krzysztof Pastor on Dangerous Liaisons: “Eroticism in dance is important but not scandalous anymore.”
Dangerous Liaisons is a well-known eighteenth-century epistolary novel and a 1988 movie classic, but it has also been adapted for theatre...
Renewed premiere of the Ballet NdB in new costumes and decorations
A very important event in the 2018/19 season for the Ballet NdB is the renewed premiere of Tchaikovsky's immortal title...
TANEC PRAHA 2019 and Czech Dance Platform announced their programmes
The 31st edition of TANEC PRAHA International Festival of Contemporary Dance and Movement Theatre 2019, which will take place from 3 to 22 June 2019 in Prague...
Three premieres, collaboration with musicians and SKUTR duo, six months in Berlin and 10th anniversary celebrations ahead of Cirk La Putyka this year
Last 21 December marked the 10th anniversary of the premiere of La Putyka, directed by Rostislav Novák Jnr.
Zahrada/ The Garden - When the Harvest is Poor
Shortly before Christmas, Laterna magika ensemble prepared a treat for families with children.
Faunus or Talaga's Natural Impression
Only a week before Christmas, rather discreetly and without much promotion, the dancer and choreographer Martin Talaga ...
New artistic director of Moravian Theatre Ballet in Olomouc stages La Bayadere
Long-term first soloist of the National Ballets in Prague and Brno, Michal Štípa, becomes new Artistic Director of the...
31st TANEC PRAHA Festival to be by Korean choreographer Eun-Me Ahn
Following last year’s success of Dancing Grandmothers, the 31st edition of the TANEC PRAHA International Festival of Contemporary Dance and Movement Theatre...
The Taming of the shrew – the quarrel of lovers…
Shakespeare is a bottomless well of inspiration, which applies to ballet adaptations as well. The Taming of the Shrew...
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE – VACULÍK STAGES WILLIAMS FOR SOUTH-BOHEMIAN THEATRE BALLET
On 16 November 2018, the South-Bohemian Theatre in České Budějovice presented the first ballet premiere of the new season: A Streetcar Named Desire.
Grant applications deadline postponed? Suspicious gesture of the minister…
Out of the blue, the Ministry of Culture postponed the deadline for 2019 grant applications to 12 November 2018 earlier this month. Good news? Rather a bunch of question marks…
Bridges of Time: In honor of Jiří Kylián: “He watered us like plants and let us grow.“
“Fantastic, fabulous, amazing.” That is how three world choreographers describe their work with Jiří Kylián. Patrick Delcroix, Roslyn Anderson and Cora Bos Kroese used to work in Nederlands Dans Theater under his lead...
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