Its artistic director framed this year’s Tanz im August as a weather map of turbulence. Across the thirteen shows spanning three weeks – from Gaza and Belarus to a swimming pool in Prenzlauer Berg – the metaphor held.

From 17 to 19 July 2026, Žďár nad Sázavou came alive for the fourteenth time with the KoresponDance festival.

On its website, the Czech Ministry of Culture promoted folklore and bread-baking, while over the summer it secretly baked up a new state cultural policy.

Following a period of cultural drought, at least for dance, when July arrived in Rome, it felt like two months squeezed into one: a lot of performances in a short time.

On 13 September 1777, the world premiere of Maximilien Gardel’s pantomime ballet La Chercheuse d’Esprit took place before the French court at Choisy.

On Saturday, July 4, the world premiere of the production Perpetuum Havel took place as part of the Off program of the Avignon Theater Festival. The production marked the very first professional Czech adaptation of the only libretto for nonverbal theater written by Václav Havel.

Daylight cannot be made to follow a computer program, so how can lighting design work with it? Here is an interview with lighting designer and artist Pavla Beranová about her new book Light and Exhibition Space.

The performance Mountain took place at Jatka78 as part of TANEC PRAHA festival. In it, Jozef Fruček and Linda Kapetanea explore the themes of death and the loss of a loved one.