Dance Transit.PRAHA.LEIPZIG.DRESDEN Festival

The Festival will kick off on February 8 in Prague and it will conclude on February 12. The Czech part of the programme will be launched by the ensemble 420PEOPLE with their last project Phrasing the Pain, the choreography by Ann Van den Broek, and the dancer from Leipzig Hermann Heisig in the duet Pongo Land. On February 10 the visitors will have a chance to see Wagner Moreira with his performance Um(-)räumen! and Davide Sportelli with Vessels. On February 12 the whole parade will be concluded by Anna Till in the FLAT SCREAM and NANOHACH under the leadership of Veronika Švábová with the staging Move on.
The show will continue on February 28 in Leipzig and from 27 February to 6 March it will culminate in Dresden. "In each part of the festival local dance scenes will be introduced – Dresden will be represented by ensembles from the independent network TanzNetzDresden, and Prague will be represented by Spitfire Company, VerTeDance or Peter Šavel and Tereza Ondrová giving a guest performance in the Hellerau and in the Lofft Theatre," explains Margaret Perroud, who is the coordinator of the festival for Tanec Praha. "The Dance Transit Festival gives artists the opportunity to present and confront their work on other stages and at the same time it deepens the cooperation among dance theatres in Prague, Dresden and Leipzig," adds Ondřej Hrab, the director of the Archa Theatre.
The PONEC Theatre and the Archa Theatre together with the Hellerau – the European centre of arts in Dresden and the Lofft Theatre in Leipzig are connected though many things – innovative dramaturgy, promotion of original work, social engagement, strategies to work with the audience and community-based approach to its development. Therefore, at the end of the festival the professional jury consisting of Dieter Jaenicke (Hellerau), Ulrike Melzwig (Schaubühne Lindenfels) and Markéta Perroud (Tanec Praha) will award a prize – a common co-production project.
The Czech-German cooperation will continue at the festival PRAGUE DANCE 2015; in June the famous German ensemble Sasha Waltz & Guests will be brought to Pilsen and Prague. Under the leadership of Alexandra Karabelas and Michi Purucker will arise German-Czech projects for unconventional spaces. The cross-border exchange of the audience between Prague and Dresden is also the European rarity. The Archa Theatre takes its audience to Hellerau, currently for example to the renewed premiere of the choreography Yes, We Can´t by William Forsyth.
Within the accompanying programme of the Dance Transit.PRAHA.LEIPZIG.DRESDEN Festival two workshops will be held for the professional dance community – organizers, promoters, managers and executive performers. The first one, on the topic Networking, Fundraising and Residential Programmes in The World, will take place in Prague in the Ponec Theatre, and the second one on the topic Speech and Movement will be held in the Hellerau in Dresden. Source: Tanec Praha