Archive: Culture | Dance Dance
Simon Broughton - world music aficionado and committed Czechophile
Simon Broughton is a successful British television director whose work
includes a number of documentaries on music from around the world, shot in
locations ranging from Portugal to Afghanistan. He is also editor of
Songlines magazine, a leading British periodical devoted to world music as
well as co-editor of the acclaimed Rough Guide to World Music. More
Hedy Fromings - part 2
Hedy Fromings was born Hedvika Honigenova in 1926. In the late 1940s she
left Czechoslovakia, moving to the UK - where she had spent the war years
- with her English husband. To maintain ties with her home country she
became an active member of the British Czech Friendship League and a
spin-off organisation, the Beskydy Dancers music and dance group; she
eventually became the leader of the latter almost three decades ago.
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Daria Klimentova - prima ballerina at the English National Ballet
The Czech Republic's best known ballet dancer, Daria Klimentova, has been
in Prague recently hosting, as she does every summer, a ballet master
class. Born here in the Czech capital, for the last decade she has been a
prima ballerina at the prestigious English National Ballet in London.
During a break in the master class, Daria Klimentova told me how her
career as a dancer began.
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Dance in a digital age
Accompanied by a jarring electrical soundtrack and a bewildering laser
display, Petra Hauerova took to the stage in Prague's Ponec Theatre last
Friday to present her choreographic work, Turning Machine. In a highly
technological display, she threw the audience into a distorted world of
humanoid forms, humbling onlookers with the sheer power of the illusions
created. Hers is one of a number of performances at this year's Czech
Dance Platform, now in its 12th year.
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Prague to host a star-studded ballet gala
If you are a lover of ballet, then on Wednesday evening Prague will be the
place to be. The State Opera will be hosting a star-studded international
ballet gala, featuring twenty top dancers from around the world. They
include stars of the Paris Opera, the New York City Ballet, the Berlin
State Opera, or the Bolshoi in Moscow, to name just a few, and most have
never danced in Prague before. The gala will include classics like
Tchaikovsky, but there will also be more modern and experimental work.
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Vaughan spoke to the director of the project Jana Kurova. More
Daria In and Out - the life of a Czech prima ballerina presented both on and off-stage
Prima ballerina Daria Klimentova is undoubtedly one of the most popular
Czech dancers ever, with an impressive career in the Prague National
Theatre Ballet, the Cape Ballet Company in Cape Town, the Scottish Ballet
in Glasgow, and since 1996 the English National Ballet. On Tuesday, an
exhibition of 60 photographs opened to the public in the foyer of the
Albert Hall that depicts her career both on and off stage.
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