The oldest festival of dance art in Central Europe will be held in the Vinohrady Theatre

The thirty-eighth year of the International Dance Weeks, the oldest festival of contemporary dance art in Central Europe, is approaching. The big dance holiday will start with a gala performance, which will take place on Sunday, April 21, from 7 p.m. in the Vinohrady Theater in Prague.

The dramaturgy of the festive evening, organized by the Taneční centrum Praha conservatory, is mainly focused on top young Czech artists and artistic projects of domestic and foreign conservatories and academies.

Young dancers from Dresden’s Palucca Hochschule für Tanz will meet on one stage, Bohemia Ballet will be part of the program, i.e. young professionals from the Dance Conservatory of the Capital City of Prague, and the best of the Prague House of Dance Arts will also be presented: Ballet Praha Junior and Prague Chamber Ballet ensembles .

“We want to show the audience the development of dance theater through young talents who are just starting their journey through the art world. The gala evening will feature mostly junior ensembles composed of recent graduates and even conservatory students, full of youthful energy and enthusiasm,” says Antonín Schneider, manager of the Prague Dance Center, about the program of the gala evening.

After a long time, our guests from Palucca Hochschule für Tanz will come to Prague. This school is a top European dance institution that, under the leadership of the outstanding Canadian dancer and artistic manager Jason Beechey, has in recent years acquired a completely new – modern face of eclectic arts education.

“Their group of students in their twenties is really great, I appreciate our long-term reciprocal collaboration and I look forward to seeing what they dance at the gala,” added Schneider.

As part of the rich program of the International Dance Weeks festival, various seminars and workshops will also take place until the end of April, happenings of dance pedagogues in the Prague House of Dance Arts, which will be led by guests from, for example, Japan or California, and a big dance gala evening is also planned in Litvínov (April 25). or the Open Day at the Prague House of Dance Arts, which will take place symbolically on International Dance Day (April 29).

The International Dance Weeks are the oldest Czech, and probably Central European, festival of contemporary dance, which arose from the tradition of regular seminars and performances of the Charles University Dance Center with foreign artists and teachers in the first half of the 1980s.