Premieres by large ensembles, small collectives, and individual artists, a decentralised, overflowing community, a promising excess of productions that lasted the entire season. I fear that one would need an entire book to provide an exhaustive list of all premieres and events, and not just a single chapter at that. But perhaps the following can serve as inspiration for where to catch some dance this coming season.

Dance continues to perpetuate unrealistic and potentially harmful beauty standards, which can contribute to mental health challenges, including eating disorders, among dancers. This pressure can be amplified by social media’s pervasive influence.

Sorour Darabi’s performances are places where the complexity of otherness is exposed. By bringing together personal and collective experiences, Darabi explores intersectionality and the changeability of our identity and bodies in relation to culture and their political context.

In the European premiere of her technicolour new work, South Korean choreographer Eun-Me Anh—one of the most important artists of her country, often referred to as the “Pina Bausch of Asia”—confronts Western audiences with their generalisations about the East.

“All art is political in the sense that it serves someone’s politics”, wrote the American playwright August Wilson.

We met the day before his fifty-first birthday in front of the Arkády shopping center in Pankrác, Prague. Even from a distance, when I saw him, his upright posture clearly revealed his background in dance. And no wonder...

Biennale Danza 2025, Myth Makers, staged a landscape of tension and contradiction, where aesthetics collided with both implicit and overt politics.

The premiere of Your Ghosts, My Shadows took place at the Komedie Theater, home to the dance company of Czech choreographer, teacher, and director Lenka Vagnerová.