The 4th International Ballet Competition will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from November 29 to December 2, 2012. The event will take place at the New Stage of the National Theatre. The competition is being organized by the Dance Association of the Czech Republic in cooperation with Czech Centre of ITI – UNESCO and other organisations. It will be for the fourth time that this event is internationally open to all nationalities, the whole programme is public. The awarding ceremony and final gala will take place on Sunday, December 2, from 6 PM.
There are more than 90 competitors, both professional dancers and students, from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belgium, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, Italy, Australia, Hungary, Austria, Greece, Serbia, France a Japan. From the competitors, 65 are in Junior Category and 26 in Senior Category. The jury is international: Chairman Ivan Liška, Artistic Director of the Bayerisches Staatsballett München, then Cyril Atanassoff, étoile and professor at the Paris Opera., Vasilij Medvedev, choreographer, pedagogue, founder of the International Ballet Festival Dance Open in Sankt Petersburg, Tereza Podařilová, Principal Dancer of the National Theatre Ballet in Prague, and finally Mário Radačovský, dancer and choreographer, Artistic Director of Ballet Bratislava.
“Interpretative competitions are of big importance both for dancers as spectators. They give the dancers opportunity to compare the results of their work and thus help in finding new opportunities in studies, internships, participation in gala concerts, offers of engagement or international competitions,” says Mr. Zdeněk Prokeš, director of the competition. "Ballet lovers have the opportunity to see in a few days work of numerous artists and gain the view of the current ballet art.”
The competition will be accessible to the broad public as the prices are very low: competition rounds 50.- CZK to 100.- CZK, final gala 120.- CZK to 270.- CZK.
“This fourteenth year of the Contest of Czech and Slovak Dance Artists leads me to reflect on the 37 years elapsed of interpretation contests in Czechoslovakia (later on in Czechia and Slovakia, nowadays also with participants from other countries). Since their second year, I took an active part in all of them, either as a contestant, or as an organizer or as a jury member,” Mr. Prokeš says. “37 years of age in human life is the time of adulthood, maturity, but for a dance artist, however, it is the whole artistic life, including the subsequent career. What then was the artistic career of winners of previous years? Most of them became pillars of Czech ballet companies (for example Marie Šlezingrová, Michaela Černá, Hana Vláčilová, Marie Hybešová, Nora Gallovičová, Soňa Zejdová, Tereza Podařilová, Natálie Turjanicová, Eva Horáková, Andrea Smejkalová, Jiří Horák, Ferdinand Holeva, Viktor Konvalinka, Jan Fousek, Karel Audy), others were and are spreading the glory of Czechoslovak ballet in the world (like Lubomír Kafka, Lenka Jarošíková, Antonín Michna, Mário Radačovský, Daria Klimentová, Barbora Kohoutková, Nina Poláková, Veronika Kornová, Roman Lazík, Lukáš Slavický, Tomáš Ottych, and more). Some, after their significant dance career, became choreographic or managing celebrities (Jiří Kyselák, Libor Vaculík, Igor Vejsada, Vladimír Nečas).”
Program:
29. 11. 6 PM: I. round: A – Senior
30. 11. 5 PM: I. round: B – Junior
1. 12. 6 PM: II. round both categories
2. 12. 6 PM: awarding ceremony and gala concert
All parts at the New Stage of the National Theatre.
Tickets are available at the price of 50,- CZK to 270,- CZK (29., 30. 11., 1. 12.: 50,- – 100,-; 2. 12.: 120,- – 270,-) at all box-offices that belong to the National Theatre (Main Box Office at Ostrovní 1, Prague 1; New Stage, Národní 4, Prague 1; Kolowrat Palace, Ovocný trh 6, Prague 1; State Opera, Wilsonova 4, Prague 1); more info on tickets at: www.narodni-divadlo.cz or www.novascena.cz . Box-office of the New Stage: Tel: +420 224 931 482
The organizers of the competition are Dance Association of the Czech Republic, Czech Centre of I.T.I. – UNESCO, under the patronage of the Ministress of Culture Mgr. Alena Hanáková and the Capital City Prague, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Capital City Prague, Grishko, Czech Literary Fund, Foundation “Život umělce” and Association of Theatre Artists.
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The 4th International Ballet Competition will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from November 29 to December 2, 2012. The event will take place at the New Stage of the National Theatre. The competition is being organized by the Dance Association of the Czech Republic in cooperation with Czech Centre of ITI – UNESCO and other organisations. It will be for the fourth time that this event is internationally open to all nationalities, the whole programme is public. The awarding ceremony and final gala will take place on Sunday, December 2, from 6 PM.
There are more than 90 competitors, both professional dancers and students, from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belgium, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, Italy, Australia, Hungary, Austria, Greece, Serbia, France a Japan. From the competitors, 65 are in Junior Category and 26 in Senior Category. The jury is international: Chairman Ivan Liška, Artistic Director of the Bayerisches Staatsballett München, then Cyril Atanassoff, étoile and professor at the Paris Opera., Vasilij Medvedev, choreographer, pedagogue, founder of the International Ballet Festival Dance Open in Sankt Petersburg, Tereza Podařilová, Principal Dancer of the National Theatre Ballet in Prague, and finally Mário Radačovský, dancer and choreographer, Artistic Director of Ballet Bratislava.
“Interpretative competitions are of big importance both for dancers as spectators. They give the dancers opportunity to compare the results of their work and thus help in finding new opportunities in studies, internships, participation in gala concerts, offers of engagement or international competitions,” says Mr. Zdeněk Prokeš, director of the competition. "Ballet lovers have the opportunity to see in a few days work of numerous artists and gain the view of the current ballet art.”
The competition will be accessible to the broad public as the prices are very low: competition rounds 50.- CZK to 100.- CZK, final gala 120.- CZK to 270.- CZK.
“This fourteenth year of the Contest of Czech and Slovak Dance Artists leads me to reflect on the 37 years elapsed of interpretation contests in Czechoslovakia (later on in Czechia and Slovakia, nowadays also with participants from other countries). Since their second year, I took an active part in all of them, either as a contestant, or as an organizer or as a jury member,” Mr. Prokeš says. “37 years of age in human life is the time of adulthood, maturity, but for a dance artist, however, it is the whole artistic life, including the subsequent career. What then was the artistic career of winners of previous years? Most of them became pillars of Czech ballet companies (for example Marie Šlezingrová, Michaela Černá, Hana Vláčilová, Marie Hybešová, Nora Gallovičová, Soňa Zejdová, Tereza Podařilová, Natálie Turjanicová, Eva Horáková, Andrea Smejkalová, Jiří Horák, Ferdinand Holeva, Viktor Konvalinka, Jan Fousek, Karel Audy), others were and are spreading the glory of Czechoslovak ballet in the world (like Lubomír Kafka, Lenka Jarošíková, Antonín Michna, Mário Radačovský, Daria Klimentová, Barbora Kohoutková, Nina Poláková, Veronika Kornová, Roman Lazík, Lukáš Slavický, Tomáš Ottych, and more). Some, after their significant dance career, became choreographic or managing celebrities (Jiří Kyselák, Libor Vaculík, Igor Vejsada, Vladimír Nečas).”
Program:
29. 11. 6 PM: I. round: A – Senior
30. 11. 5 PM: I. round: B – Junior
1. 12. 6 PM: II. round both categories
2. 12. 6 PM: awarding ceremony and gala concert
All parts at the New Stage of the National Theatre.
Tickets are available at the price of 50,- CZK to 270,- CZK (29., 30. 11., 1. 12.: 50,- – 100,-; 2. 12.: 120,- – 270,-) at all box-offices that belong to the National Theatre (Main Box Office at Ostrovní 1, Prague 1; New Stage, Národní 4, Prague 1; Kolowrat Palace, Ovocný trh 6, Prague 1; State Opera, Wilsonova 4, Prague 1); more info on tickets at: www.narodni-divadlo.cz or www.novascena.cz . Box-office of the New Stage: Tel: +420 224 931 482
The organizers of the competition are Dance Association of the Czech Republic, Czech Centre of I.T.I. – UNESCO, under the patronage of the Ministress of Culture Mgr. Alena Hanáková and the Capital City Prague, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Capital City Prague, Grishko, Czech Literary Fund, Foundation “Život umělce” and Association of Theatre Artists.
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