The publication focuses on original contributions of both popular and scholarly character that reflect current topics and developments in dance, nonverbal theatre, and contemporary circus. It is published once a year in both print and digital form, and all academic articles undergo independent peer review.
DCJ aims to foster dialogue between Czech and international experts in dance and movement arts, as well as between academia, artists, and audiences interested in a deeper understanding of the field in its broader social and cultural contexts.
Dance Context Journal 2026
Content
Editorial – Petra Dotlačilová, Zuzana Rafajová
Season 2025/2026
Roman Vašek – ballet
Lucie Kocourková – contemporary dance
Hana Strejčková – contemporary circus and nonverbal theatre
Opinien articles
Hana Polanská Turečková – Excellence as the language of power
Lucia Bielik – The overlap between politics and dance & performance art in Slovakia
Popular science articles
Nela Winkler – Lost Women Creators: The Politics of Women’s Visibility in Czech Theatre
Olexa Csenge – Opening the Iron Closet: Queer Western dance performances in Post-1989 Hungary
Robin Lamothe – Europe’s soft bodies, Europe’s hard limits: Aa choreography of constraint
Zuzana Smugalová – The political aspects of the life of Czech rhythmics exponent, Eliška Bláhová
Research articles
Anja K. Arend – Dis/Continuities – The Folkwang dance department in the years 1933 to 1945
Johana Panenková – National or International? The Political and Cultural Influence on the Emergence of Chinese Classical Dance
Marianna Panourgia – Tracing moveprints: somatoralities and the dancing body as political and pedagogical archive
Anne-Lise Brevers – Immaterial Girls: Romantic Ballet, Gendered Visibility, and the Politics of Disappearance
Dance Context Journal 2026 will be published, as is tradition, in autumn in both print and digital form. All texts will continue to be published in both Czech and English. Since 2025, individual articles have also been made gradually available on this website.
