26th Czech Dance Platform
25.11. 2020
The Czech Dance Platform 2020 took place online in the form of a Webinar only for professionals on Wednesday, 25 November from 15:00.
The online program format offered interviews with artists as well as excerpts of works and Q&A debates. Prepared with the help of Springback Production, interviews with artists conducted by Aerowaves Springback writers Ka Bradley, Emily May and Charles A. Catherine and the discussion section led by Slovak dramaturge and presenter Maja Hriešik.
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The Czech Dance Platform 2020 presented works of dance and movement theatre that premiered last year and is traditionally supplemented by works that were awarded at the Czech Dance Platform 2019.
Works selected by the Dramaturgical Council
Ondřej Holba: And Who Is Useless Now
Spitfire Company / Markéta Vacovská & Miřenka Čechová: Constellations III. My Son Looking to the Sun
Temporary Collective / Tereza Ondrová, Petra Tejnorová and coll.: DUETS
Michal Záhora: Generation X
Jana Stárková, Lukas Blaha, Ondřej Menoušek: LAVABO
Viktor Černický: PLI – Awarded Piece of the Year 2019
Cécile Da Costa: Roselyne
Karine Ponties / Tereza Ondrová & Petra Tejnorová: SAME SAME – Awarded OutstandingPerformer of the Year 2019
POCKETART / Sabina Bočková & Johana Pocková: The Lion’s Den
You can find the criteria for selecting works for the Czech Dance Platform festival here.
Dramaturgical Council
- Lucie Hayashi – founder and editor of Dance News (Taneční actuality), secretary of the Department of Dance at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU), focuses on the position of dance in society
- Lucia Kašiarová – director of the non-profit organization ALT@RT, founder of the cultural centre Studio ALTA (recently moved to Invalidovna) and the HAYBAJ HO festival of Slovak contemporary dance, artist
- Yvona Kreuzmannová – founder and director of Tanec Praha, the initiator of Dance House project (she shares a joint vote in the Dramaturgical Council with Markéta Perroud)
- Pierre Nadaud – head of the DIFA JAMU Physical Theatre Studio, philosopher, clown, dancer, choreographer-director and teacher
- Jitka Pavlišová – works at the Department of Theory and Criticism at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU), assistant professor at the Department of Film Studies in Palacký University Olomouc, member of the dramaturgical team of the dance-performative programs of Divadelní Flora Festival
- Markéta Perroud – artistic co-director of Tanec Praha (she shares a joint vote in the Dramaturgical Council with Yvona Kreuzmannová)
- Nina Vangeli – dance publicist, the senior editor of Dance Zone Magazine
