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Prague Dances |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Leland Windreich |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,030 Words, 12,301 Characters |
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Prague has never been a mainstream center for dancing. Like every other European city it supports a theater in which opera shares the stage with ballet, both offering popular European fare (Italian, French, and German grand opera and nineteenth-century ballet classics) as well as a nationalist repertoire of works created by Czech composers and choreographers. Modern dance and more stringent, experimental forms have not been widely developed, but multimedia theater has made great achievements at home and has become a characteristically Czech export for international fairs.
Vladimir Vasut's main occupation is a profession unknown in the Western dance world - that of a librettist. The need for such a specialist reflects the interdependence of drama and dance in Czech theater. A suave, slender fifty-eight-year-old native of northern Czechoslovakia, Vasut is of Hungarian parentage. He studied at Prague University and the Academy of Arts, becoming a charter member of the Prague Chamber Ballet's artist staff when it was formed in 1964. He also works as a dance specialist at the Prague Theatre Institute, writes monographs on the history of Czech dance, and serves as Prague correspondent for Dance Magazine.
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...es to the Czech theater and its time-warped aesthetics in the dance arts. It seems likely its development will be less dependent on Western advancements in dance technique than on the reconciliation of newly acquired freedom with the vast riches of a national culture. As Prague dances into the next century, it will surely do so with little need for the infusion of new concepts from outside.
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