At the age of 93, Claude Bessy, prima ballerina emerita, ballet mistress, and director of the École de danse de l’Opéra, passed away today, April 23, 2026. She devoted over sixty years of her life to a single institution, the Opéra national de Paris, where she became an étoile in 1956.

In mid-March, the ballet company of Prague’s National Theatre presented its second premiere of the season to its audience: the triptych Avant-Garde, featuring two world premieres by Robert Bondara and Marc Goecke, complemented by work of Jiří Kylián.

“Dance dance” reclaims the sheer power of the moving body by celebrating virtuosity, physical skill, and the expressive potential of movement itself. In Rome during the first trimester of 2026, the vitality of “dance dance” was on full display...

The ballet company of the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre in Ostrava premiered a programmed evening titled More Than Mozart!, subtitled The spell of music – the grace of dance – the joy of laughter.

PONEC theatre finds itself caught between two conflicting perspectives. Within the institution, the prevailing feeling is that things are moving forward and a necessary recovery process is underway. From the outside, however, the theatre is judged primarily on its results, which remain modest so far.

Starting Friday, March 13, the public space around the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic on Maltézské náměstí will become the venue for the event Art Endures (Umění trvá), which draws attention to the long-standing underfunding of culture in the Czech Republic and to growing concerns about political interference in artistic freedom.

Over the past five years, Orbita|Spellbound National Centre for Dance Production has, under the direction of Valentina Marini, curated Rome’s dance season, spanning from the cold winter days of January to May’s summer-like evenings.

For almost every negative action, there are more or less three basic reactions. Escape, i.e., hiding in a corner and quietly whining about your little wounds. Attack. Possibly with a hammer.