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On the penultimate day of 2024, the Ministry of Education approved the revised Framework Curriculum for Primary Education. For the first time in the history of Czech education, dance is now a compulsory part of the primary school curriculum. 

This year the International Festival of Contemporary Dance La Biannale di Venezia decided to honour two outstanding female personalities. The Golden Lion will be awarded to American choreographer Twyla Tharp for her lifetime achievement, and the Silver Lion to Brazilian performer and director Carolina Bianchi. This year's festival will run from 17 July to 2 August.

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. 

British organization Dancers’ Career Development (DCD) celebrates its 50th anniversary, marking half a century of supporting professional dancers in transitioning to fulfilling second careers. 

Seeing the Paris Opera Ballet’s Paquita on 18 December felt like something of a Christmas miracle. Since opening night on the 5th, the ballet’s holiday run has been repeatedly disrupted by strikes, an increasingly common scenario every December. 

Christopher Wheeldon is a rare talent: He’s known as a master of story ballet worldwide. His pieces are being staged by more and more companies eager to inject a breath of fresh air alongside treasured but overused classics. 

The National Theatre in Prague has chosen Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade for its second ballet premiere of the season. 

Aren’t we lucky in Prague that we can draw inspiration for decades from an artist of guru's calibre - the Briton Julyen Hamilton! 

The Institute for Choreology of the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague organises an international conference Choreology – Past and Present.

The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Ballet entered the new season with a composed evening. 

If one were to imagine a combination of particular choreographic and ballet company dance styles, one would struggle to find a more incompatible combination than the highly dramatic, expressive, and exalted Kenneth MacMillan with his opulent historical opus Mayerling.

“Bura” means “tempest” in Serbian, and just as a tempest roars, so did the première of Swiss-Serbian choreographer Tamara Gvozdenovic’s newest work, After Bura, at the Trafó Center of Contemporary Arts in Budapest

The Dance Context Journal invites new authors to submit articles for the 2025 issue, which will focus on the theme of ‘Identities in Dance’.

Dance adaptations of original plays are always a challenge for choreographers. Shakespeare's dramas and comedies have come to life on the stage, and they have been particularly successful in the world of ballet.

Look out the window, the autumnal colours of Prague in early October vibrate in the sun. Inside, on the Archa+ theatre stage, a new piece by choreographer and director Jana Burkiewiczová – Slunce (The Sun) – premiered as part of the Signal and 4 +4 Days in Motion Festivals.