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The season finale in the Spanish capital belongs to the Madrid en Danza festival, where some of the most prominent names on the contemporary dance scene can regularly be seen. 

The online magazine Taneční aktuality is introducing a subscription model. While all news and reviews will remain free, interviews, profiles of personalities, and full versions of podcasts will move to a paywall in September.

The last premiere of the 2024/2025 season at the National Theatre Ballet was the triple bill Sarcasms, named after Hans van Manen's central duet, which in turn was named after Sergei Prokofiev's accompanying composition. 

During the three-day “Reflections & Reflections – On the Future of Debate Culture” programme at the Berliner Festspiele, Emanuel Gat unveiled Freedom Sonata (2024), a work that navigates, both literally and conceptually, the fragile boundary between order and the pursuit of freedom.

We met with world-renowned choreographer and versatile artist Jiří Kylián, whom I know personally, to talk about the upcoming unique event Kylián Festival: Wings of Time, which is being prepared in Oslo, Norway (May 29–June 14). We also discussed the perception of the passage of time, life, and death. 

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.

The rising talents of Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) brought Falling into Shadow to the stage of Stadsschouwburg Utrecht—a compelling, genre-blending evening built around three distinctive choreographies. 

Have you ever wished to see the unconscious dance? Have you ever wondered how Sigmund Freud's ideas about the drives and instincts stored somewhere in the depths of our psyche could be expressed through dance?

He has been described as a dancer with the body of a Greek god and the aura of a movie star. He has reached the highest of the highest in the ballet world, and he has done it all, as it were, with grace, a disarming smile and without breaking a drop of sweat. 

Loneliness, fear and moon dust. Prague's Švandovo Theatre hosted the internationally acclaimed mime and choreographer Radim Vizváry for the umpteenth time. 

A guest of the Berliner Festspiele Performing Arts Season, the Israeli Batsheva Dance Company presented Ohad Naharin’s MOMO (2022), a non-narrative, mesmerising piece, strongly characterised by duality.

The National Ballet of Canada has a new resident choreographer, David Dawson, who has served in a similar role with HET Nationale Ballet in the Netherlands.

I have been attending internationale tanzmesse nrw in Düsseldorf for over twenty years. As an exhibitor with a stand at the fair, I have been able to attract international attention and numerous readers and customers for my dance magazine tanznetz.

The artistic directors of all four ensembles of the National Theatre in Prague have announced the performance schedule for the 143rd theatre season. 

Exactly sixty years ago, the first version of Onegin, arguably John Cranko's most famous ballet, premiered in Stuttgart. It would receive its final cut two years later, followed by international acclaim another two years after that, during a tour of the United States.