On its website, the Czech Ministry of Culture promoted folklore and bread-baking, while over the summer it secretly baked up a new state cultural policy.
Following a period of cultural drought, at least for dance, when July arrived in Rome, it felt like two months squeezed into one: a lot of performances in a short time.
During the last hot week of June, Prague hosted a major dance event. A five-day symposium on improvisation entitled Inner Speech as a Stage Gesture in Instant Composition took place from 22 to 26 June 2026 at HAMU and at the Žižkostel Community Centre.
As surely as spring turns into summer, the dance season in London continued its course from late April right through to July.
On 13 September 1777, the world premiere of Maximilien Gardel’s pantomime ballet La Chercheuse d’Esprit took place before the French court at Choisy.
On Saturday, July 4, the world premiere of the production Perpetuum Havel took place as part of the Off program of the Avignon Theater Festival. The production marked the very first professional Czech adaptation of the only libretto for nonverbal theater written by Václav Havel.
Daylight cannot be made to follow a computer program, so how can lighting design work with it? Here is an interview with lighting designer and artist Pavla Beranová about her new book Light and Exhibition Space.
The performance Mountain took place at Jatka78 as part of TANEC PRAHA festival. In it, Jozef Fruček and Linda Kapetanea explore the themes of death and the loss of a loved one.
Dance Context Journal is preparing its third issue. Following last year’s focus on identity in dance, this year’s edition explores the role of politics in the performing arts.
Adriana Štefaňáková made a notable debut to dance audiences last fall as a performer in Miřenka Čechová’s Hostage. Now she has presented her own full-length work Triptych: Genesis/Metamorphosis/6’7...
