CROSSOVER

This year’s Prague edition of the Malá inventura (Small Inventory) festival once again presented notable projects from the independent and experimental scene. In addition to established companies, it also introduced up-and-coming and lesser-known artists active in the Czech Republic.

Twenty choreographers and directors demonstrated their artistic abilities in the innovative work DVACETjedna (Twenty-One), in which the author of the concept and sole performer, Miřenka Čechová, placed herself in their hands.

What to do in a sunless summer? You warm up. Leading Austrian choreographer, director, and performance artist Florentina Holzinger does it in her usual — and perhaps more radical than ever — way: with an orgy, a surgical operation, female bodies dancing, crashing, and rising again.

Dance Context Journal, a direct follow-up to the print publication the Special Issue of Taneční aktuality, is currently in the process of editing its second offering.

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.

Renowned as a choreographer, director, performer and visual artist, Dimitris Papaioannou wears many hats but is hesitant to label himself.

For years, I have made no secret of the fact that I dislike the identification of artists by nation of origin on posters and promotional materials. I get that certain funding applications demand international participation.

The Czech National Ballet will offer the world premiere of the original ballet The Sun, the Moon and the Wind choreographed by Viktor Konvalinka, the world premiere of the original ballet Sheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov choreographed by Mauro Bigonzetti.