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.

In the European premiere of her technicolour new work, South Korean choreographer Eun-Me Anh—one of the most important artists of her country, often referred to as the “Pina Bausch of Asia”—confronts Western audiences with their generalisations about the East.

“The ground is moving, and we are moving with it”, writes artistic director Ricardo Carmona. Tanz im August 2025 stays true to this vision: dance as a seismograph of present-day tensions.

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.

The premiere of Your Ghosts, My Shadows took place at the Komedie Theater, home to the dance company of Czech choreographer, teacher, and director Lenka Vagnerová.

The Thalia Awards 2025, prestigious awards presented for the 32nd time by the Actors' Association to the most prominent figures in Czech theatre, were ceremoniously presented this evening in the historic building of the National Theatre in Prague.