Literature, visual art, music, theatre. Most artistic professions have already entered the fight against content generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Photography competitions and stock photo databases are setting rules to counter AI photos out of fear of losing market value.

Premieres by large ensembles, small collectives, and individual artists, a decentralised, overflowing community, a promising excess of productions that lasted the entire season. I fear that one would need an entire book to provide an exhaustive list of all premieres and events, and not just a single chapter at that. But perhaps the following can serve as inspiration for where to catch some dance this coming season.

Dance continues to perpetuate unrealistic and potentially harmful beauty standards, which can contribute to mental health challenges, including eating disorders, among dancers. This pressure can be amplified by social media’s pervasive influence.

Sorour Darabi’s performances are places where the complexity of otherness is exposed. By bringing together personal and collective experiences, Darabi explores intersectionality and the changeability of our identity and bodies in relation to culture and their political context.

Czech National Ballet has added another work by John Neumeier to its repertoire after A Streetcar Named Desire. This time it is the ballet Liliom, which had its world premiere in 2011 in a production by the Hamburg Ballett.

“All art is political in the sense that it serves someone’s politics”, wrote the American playwright August Wilson.

We met the day before his fifty-first birthday in front of the Arkády shopping center in Pankrác, Prague. Even from a distance, when I saw him, his upright posture clearly revealed his background in dance. And no wonder...

Biennale Danza 2025, Myth Makers, staged a landscape of tension and contradiction, where aesthetics collided with both implicit and overt politics.